Definitions for sigh
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. sigh, suspirationnoun

   an utterance made by exhaling audibly

2. sighverb

   a sound like a person sighing

   "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees"

3. sigh, suspireverb

   heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily

   "She sighed sadly"

4. sighverb

   utter with a sigh

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. sighnoun

   A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.

2. sighnoun

   Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.

3. sighnoun

   A person who is bored.

4. sighverb

   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.

5. sighverb

   To lament; to grieve.

6. sighverb

   To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

7. sighverb

   To experience an emotion associated with sighing.

   He silently sighed for his lost youth.

8. sighverb

   To make a sound like sighing.

   The tree sighed in the wind.

9. sighverb

   To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

10. sighverb

    To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

11. sighinterjection

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

    Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.

12. Etymology: sihen, from sīcan

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sighnoun

   A violent and audible emission of the breath which has been long retained, as in sadness.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   Full often has my heart swoln with keeping my sighs imprisoned; full often have the tears I drove back from mine eyes, turned back to drown my heart. Philip Sidney.

   Love is a smoke rais’d with the fume of sighs;
   Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. William Shakespeare.

   What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charg’d. William Shakespeare.

   Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty on the face. Taylor.

   In Venus’ temple, on the sides were seen
   Issuing sighs, that smok’d along the wall. Dryden.

2. To Sighverb

   To lament; to mourn. Not in use.

   Ages to come, and men unborn,
   Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate. Matthew Prior.

3. To Sighverb

   To emit the breath audibly, as in grief.

   Etymology: sican, sicettan , Saxon; suchten, Dutch.

   I lov’d the maid I married; never man
   Sigh’d truer breath. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   I’ll not be made a soft and dull-ey’d fool,
   To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
   To Christian intercessors. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

   He sighed deeply in his spirit, and faith, why doth this generation seek after a sign? Mar. viii. 12.

   For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy will I arise. Ps. xii.5.

   Happier he,
   Who seeks not pleasure through necessity,
   Than such as once on slipp’ry thrones were plac’d,
   And chasing, sigh to think themselves are chas’d. Dryden.

   The nymph too longs to be alone;
   Leaves all the swains, and sighs for one. Matthew Prior.

   Thus sighed he away the melancholy night. Scriblerus Club .

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sigh

   Paralanguage, also known as vocalics, is a component of meta-communication that may modify meaning, give nuanced meaning, or convey emotion, by using techniques such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation, etc. It is sometimes defined as relating to nonphonemic properties only. Paralanguage may be expressed consciously or unconsciously. The study of paralanguage is known as paralinguistics and was invented by George L. Trager in the 1950s, while he was working at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. His colleagues at the time included Henry Lee Smith, Charles F. Hockett (working with him on using descriptive linguistics as a model for paralanguage), Edward T. Hall developing proxemics, and Ray Birdwhistell developing kinesics. Trager published his conclusions in 1958, 1960 and 1961.His work has served as a basis for all later research, especially those investigating the relationship between paralanguage and culture (since paralanguage is learned, it differs by language and culture). A good example is the work of John J. Gumperz on language and social identity, which specifically describes paralinguistic differences between participants in intercultural interactions. The film Gumperz made for BBC in 1982, Multiracial Britain: Cross talk, does a particularly good job of demonstrating cultural differences in paralanguage and their impact on relationships. Paralinguistic information, because it is phenomenal, belongs to the external speech signal (Ferdinand de Saussure's parole) but not to the arbitrary conmodality]]. Even vocal language has some paralinguistic as well as linguistic properties that can be seen (lip reading, McGurk effect), and even felt, e.g. by the Tadoma method.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sigh

   A sigh is a long, deep breath that is usually exhaled audibly. It is often associated with feelings of relief, exhaustion, frustration, longing, sadness, or discontent. However, it can also express a variety of emotions such as satisfaction or awe. It's often used as a non-verbal form of communication to express emotional states or reactions.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sighverb

   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, or the like

2. Sighverb

   hence, to lament; to grieve

3. Sighverb

   to make a sound like sighing

4. Sighverb

   to exhale (the breath) in sighs

5. Sighverb

   to utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over

6. Sighverb

   to express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs

7. Sighverb

   a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing

8. Sighverb

   figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent

9. Etymology: [OE. sighen, sien; cf. also OE. siken, AS. scan, and OE. sighten, siten, sichten, AS. siccettan; all, perhaps, of imitative origin.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sigh

   Sigh is a Japanese extreme metal band from Tokyo, formed in 1989. They are credited as being one of the first Japanese black metal bands, when the majority of black metal in early 1990s came from Scandinavia. They gradually shifted from a more traditional black/thrash metal sound, to a more experimental, avant-garde style.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sigh

   sī, v.i. to inhale and respire with a long, deep, and audible breathing, as in love or grief: to sound like sighing.—v.t. to express by sighs.—n. a long, deep, audible respiration.—n. Sigh′er.—adj. Sigh′ful.—adv. Sigh′ingly. [A.S. sícan; Sw. sucka.]

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1. sigh

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SIGH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sigh is ranked #91221 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Sigh surname appeared 202 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sigh.
   
   45% or 91 total occurrences were Black.
   26.2% or 53 total occurrences were Asian.
   20.7% or 42 total occurrences were White.
   3.9% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Breathe
   • Utter
   • Utterance

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'sigh' in Nouns Frequency: #2725

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'sigh' in Verbs Frequency: #634

Anagrams for sigh »

1. gish

How to pronounce sigh?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say sigh in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sigh in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sigh in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sigh in a Sentence

1. Elvis Picardo:

   A lot of people are going to breath a sigh of relief once this quarter is over.

2. Karl Marx:

   Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

3. Charles M. Schulz:

   Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh There's so little hope for advancement.

4. William Shakespeare:

   But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

5. Mark Walker:

   We'll see. sigh of relief.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sigh
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sigh
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=sigh
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigh
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sigh
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sigh
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=sigh
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html