declaiming
Delivering impassioned speech
Declaiming is speaking in a dramatic, rhetorical, or impassioned manner—the kind of formal speech associated with orators, actors, and politicians.
Someone declaiming delivers their words with deliberate emphasis and projection: He stood on the corner declaiming about the end of the world.
The word often carries a hint of pomposity or theatricality.
Oral communication ability
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- proclamationFormal public announcement
- orationFormal public speech
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
podium · lectern · elocution · pronouncement · grandiloquence · bombast · eloquence · theatrical
Publicly declaring disapproval
- condemningExpressing severe disapproval
- railingHorizontal safety bar
- inveighingCriticizing vehemently
- protestingExpressing strong public disapproval
manifesto · rallying · soapbox · activism · injustice · fiery · passionate · agitation
Dramatic speech to oneself
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- stageRaised performance platform
- performanceCarrying out a task
actor · dramatic · recitation · verse · iambic · tragedy · classical · Greek
Clergy's worship address
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- scriptureSacred religious writings
exhortation · evangelical · proclamation · gospel · revelation · thundering · hellfire · brimstone
speech
Oral communication ability
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- proclamationFormal public announcement
- orationFormal public speech
monologue · podium · lectern · elocution · pronouncement · grandiloquence · bombast · eloquence · theatrical · dramatic
denouncing
Publicly declaring disapproval
- condemningExpressing severe disapproval
- railingHorizontal safety bar
- inveighingCriticizing vehemently
protesting · manifesto · rallying · soapbox · activism · injustice · fiery · passionate · agitation · polemic
soliloquy
Dramatic speech to oneself
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- stageRaised performance platform
performance · actor · dramatic · recitation · verse · iambic · tragedy · classical · Greek · chorus
sermon
Clergy's worship address
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
- prophecyForetelling of future events
scripture · exhortation · evangelical · proclamation · gospel · revelation · thundering · hellfire · brimstone · congregation
- theatricstheatrics, dramatics, melodrama, histrionics, theatricality
- speechmakingorating, speechifying, sermonizing, preaching, lecturing
- explainingexplaining, clarifying, elaborating, elucidating, expounding
- loud soundsloud, scream, yell, thunderous, screaming
- pretendingpretend, pretending, fake, feign, make-believe
- preachingsermonizing, homiletics, altar call, scripture reading, closing prayer
declaimingwhispering
Breathy, near-silent speech
murmuring · muttering · mumbling · sotto voce · undertone
declaimingunderstating
Representing as less significant
chatting · mumbling · hedging · equivocating · conversing
claim, exclaim, reclaim, proclaim, acclaim, proclaims, declaim, proclaimed, declamation