Synonyms of declaiming

declaiming

verb

present participle of declaim

1

as in speaking

to give a formal often extended talk on a subject

over the last two centuries some of the most illustrious personages of their times have declaimed in the town's historic lyceum

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speaking
• lecturing
• talking
• discoursing
• orating
• expatiating
• haranguing
• descanting
• holding forth
• soliloquizing
• pontificating
• reciting
• taking the floor
• expounding
• sermonizing
• mouthing
• spouting
• filibustering
• disserting

2

as in discoursing

to talk as if giving an important and formal speech

he declaimed at some length about the nation's obligation to spread democratic values around the world

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speaking
• discoursing
• haranguing
• orating
• talking
• mouthing (off)
• announcing
• preaching
• ranting
• proclaiming
• lecturing
• raving
• perorating
• pronouncing
• declaring
• bloviating
• advertising
• sermonizing
• broadcasting
• blowing
• speechifying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of declaiming

More often, though, Tallent demonstrates his characters’ precarity rather than declaiming about it. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026