monologuing
monologuing is the present participle and gerund of monologue.
Meaning of monologue
Verb
monologue (third-person singular simple present monologues, present participle monologuing, simple past and past participle monologued)
- To speak in or deliver a monologue.
- 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
Questions about monologuing
- What is monologuing the present participle and gerund of?
- Monologuing is the present participle and gerund of monologue.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: monologuing (page history and authors); monologue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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