sigh

Meanings

Verb

• 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.

Noun

• A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
• Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
• A person who is bored.

Interjection

• An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.

Related

Similar words

• sithe

Origin

• From Middle English sighen, syghen, syȝȝen, (also syken, sychen, syghten, etc.), from Old English sīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ-. The Middle English infinitive forms in ȝ/gh are backformations of the past tense forms sighte, siȝhte, isiȝt, etc. sike.