soliloquize

C2
US /səˈlɪləˌkwaɪz/
verb Freq #490437

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself.

    "Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]

  2. 2
    verb

    To think to oneself.

    Far up in the mountains he heard a lion roar. How much safer one was, he soliloquized, in the haunts of wild beasts than in the haunts of men.

  3. 3
    verb

    talk to oneself

Etymology

From soliloquy + -ize.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
3 verb · talk to oneself monologuisemonologuize
Word family
Derived forms soliloquizersoliloquizingly
Related forms monologize

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