monologue

plural monologues · alternative US monolog

1. broadcastingA long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.

   Synonyms: soliloquy

2. comedyA long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
3. A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

present singular third person monologues · participle present monologuing · participle past monologued · past monologued · alternative US monolog

1. intransitiveTo speak in or deliver a monologue.

   He tends to monologue while she maintains a knowing smile—before cutting in with a sharp, summarizing point.

   2026 June 30, Spencer Kornhaber, “What AI Will Do to Art”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.

   1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices

   Synonyms: monologize