sighとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ
• 異形同音異義語: sie, sai, psi, xi, scye, Si, Sy, Cy

名詞

sigh (複数形 sighs)

1. A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
   • 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 7:

     To Pollyanna the air was all the more stifling after that cool breath of the out of doors; but she did not complain. She only drew a long quivering sigh.

2. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.

動詞

sigh (三人称単数 現在形 sighs, 現在分詞 sighing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sighed)

1. (intransitive) 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.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
        ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

   When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.

   He sighed. It was going to be a long night.

   He sighed over the lost opportunity.

2. (intransitive) To lament; to grieve.
   • Bible, Mark viii. 12

     He sighed deeply in his spirit.

3. (intransitive, transitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
   • Prior

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

4. (intransitive) To experience an emotion associated with sighing.

   He silently sighed for his lost youth.

5. (intransitive) To make a sound like sighing.
   • Coleridge

     And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.

   • Tennyson

     The winter winds are wearily sighing.

6. (transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

   She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.

   sigh a note and sing a note

   • Shakespeare

     Never man sighed truer breath.

7. (transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

   "I guess I have no choice," she sighed.

   She sighed her frustrations.

   • Shakespeare

     They […] sighed forth proverbs.

   • Hoole

     The gentle swain […] sighs back her grief.

同意語

• (all): sithe (廃れた用法)

間投詞

sigh

1. 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.

アナグラム

• Gish, gish