soliloquize

C2 Topic:Communication

Also spelled soliloquised

US /səˈlɪləˌkwaɪz/
verb Freq #490437

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    To talk to oneself, especially aloud and at length.

    The lonely old man would soliloquize for hours in his empty kitchen.

  2. 2
    verb

    For a character in a play to speak their thoughts aloud while alone on stage.

    Hamlet soliloquizes about life and death in his famous speech.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 verb · to talk to oneself,... monologuize
Word family
Derived forms soliloquizersoliloquizingly
Related forms monologize

Etymology

From soliloquy + -ize.

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