sigh

Plural: sighs

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

Verb Forms: sighed, sighing, sighs

• To exhale audibly, expressing relief, weariness, or sorrow.
• 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.

Examples

• "I guess I have no choice," she sighed.
• He sighed over the lost opportunity.
• He sighed. It was going to be a long night.
• I could only SIGH when my opponent played a seven-letter word on a double-double.
• She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.
• She sighed her frustrations.
• sigh a note and sing a note
• Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.
• When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.

Synonyms

suspiration, suspire, 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, wail, wayment, yearn

Anagrams of sigh