monologist

American  

[muh-nahl-uh-jist] / məˈnɑl ə dʒɪst /

noun

• monologists
  plural

1. a person who tends to monologue or soliloquize, especially a person who dominates conversation.

2. an actor who performs monologues and soliloquies.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• monologists
  plural

Example Sentences

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“Eventually I became what I grew up with, which is a folk music act with a funny monologist, making funny intros to songs.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

They called him a monologist, and the man who talked about his father, which is the worst motto ever, the man who talks about his father.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023

That’s a sensation with which actor, comedian and monologist Mike Birbiglia has always been intimately familiar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2020

“He’s done some really good work as a monologist at those correspondents’ dinners — that’s how he qualifies to be on the show,” Seinfeld said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016

As a monologist Chilly is a distinct surprise.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

It seems to me that TV comedy studio recordings favour dead-eyed autocue gobbling monologists, indifferent to the reality of the room, and penalise proper live performers who are the best really.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013

Why do all the local monologists speak--I dare say, mind you, if I may say so--in polite British locutions?

From Time Magazine Archive

Roth and Elkin are both superb monologists, comic sprinters, which is one reason why excerpts from their longer works still seem satisfyingly self-contained.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now two wondrous monologists, Lily Tomlin and Eric Bogosian, offer movie- goers a peek into beautiful and diseased minds.

From Time Magazine Archive

My friend, indeed, very evidently was a talker—one of those fantastic monologists to whom an audience is little more than a symbol.

From Pieces of Eight by Richard Le Gallienne