verb
- speaking or writing at length about a subject
Usage: present participle of dissertate; formal
Examples
- The professor was dissertating on medieval literature for over an hour.
- She found herself dissertating about climate change at the dinner party.
- He has a tendency of dissertating on topics he knows little about.
- The scholar spent the evening dissertating on ancient philosophy.
- Rather than dissertating endlessly, she decided to write a brief summary.
- The politician kept dissertating without answering the actual question.