MEANING
To speak one’s thoughts aloud as if addressing oneself, especially in a dramatic soliloquy.
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Words that belong together
- a character soliloquizes
- soliloquize onstage
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The actor soliloquized while the other characters remained unaware of the confession.
Alone with the unfinished letter, she began to soliloquize about the choice it demanded.
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Word forms
- Base
- soliloquize
- Past tense
- soliloquized
- Past participle
- soliloquized
- Present participle
- soliloquizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- soliloquize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are soliloquizing
- Present perfect
- have/has soliloquized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been soliloquizing
- Past
- soliloquized
- Past continuous
- was/were soliloquizing
- Past perfect
- had soliloquized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been soliloquizing
- Future
- will soliloquize
- Future continuous
- will be soliloquizing
- Future perfect
- will have soliloquized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been soliloquizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: soliloquize; soliloquizes; soliloquized; soliloquized; soliloquizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: soliloquizes.
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