sigh

Betekenis

Verb

1. 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.
2. To lament; to grieve.
3. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
4. To make a sound like sighing.
5. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
6. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

Noun

1. A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
2. a manifestation of grief; a lament.
3. (slang) A person who is bored.

Intj

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

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/saɪ/

Etimologie

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”).