monologue

Speech parts

1. monologue - Noun

2. monologue - Verb

Meaning

A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.

A dramatic composition for a single performer.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

soliloquy Montgomery Montreal show report address speech piece solo talk departure presentation commentary aside lecture
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Antonyms

dialogue hush literature audience conversation quiet
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Hypernyms

language speech words oral communication speech communication actor's line

Phrases with the word

dramatic monologue inner monologue

Examples

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. Truman Capote

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating. Karl Kraus

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players. Steven Pinker

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm. Jim Butcher

Dialogue and monologue are silenced. Bundled together, men march without Thou and without I, those of the left who want to abolish memory, and those of the right who want to regulate it: hostile and separated hosts, they march into the common abyss. Martin Buber

Veronika brought her interior monologue to a close and made a promise to herself: she would not leave Villete alive. It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die. Paulo Coelho

Close letter words and terms

monologize monologophobia monologual monologuise monologuist monologuize