Soliloquize
verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself. intransitive
""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 talk to oneself wordnet
- 3 To think to oneself. intransitive
"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."
Example
More examples""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, […]"
Etymology
From soliloquy + -ize.
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