sigh
Meanings
Noun
- an utterance made by exhaling audibly
- a sound like a person sighing
- "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees"
- A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
- a manifestation of grief; a lament.
- A person who is bored.
Verb
- heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
- "She sighed sadly"
- utter with a sigh
- To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.
- To lament; to grieve.
- To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
- To make a sound like sighing.
- To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
- To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
Intj
- An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sighen (“to sigh”), back-formation from sighte, past tense form of siken, from Old English sīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out”).
Synonyms
aggrieve, begrieve, bemoan, besorrow, bewail, beweep, bleed, condole, deplore, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven, keen, lament, mean, moan, mourn, pine, regret, rue, sigh, sithe, sorrow, suspiration, suspire, wail, wayment, yearn
Scrabble Score: 8
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