Whispered vs Sighed - What's the difference?

whispered | sighed |

As verbs the difference between whispered and sighed

is that whispered is past tense of whisper while sighed is past tense of sigh.

whispered

English

Verb

(head)

(whisper)

whisper

English

Noun

(Whispering) (en noun)

The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.

* 1883 , :

"Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper , that was no more than audible.

(usually in plural) A rumor.

There are whispers of rebellion all around.

(figurative) A faint trace or hint (of something).

The soup had just a whisper of basil.

(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.

* 2002 , Ralph Schroeder, The Social Life of Avatars (page 218)

The invisibility of private interactions in the form of whispers resolved an ethical concern in the research but reduced our ability to gauge the volume of interaction

* 2004 , Caroline A. Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education (page 179)

Anyone logged in to the chat room can click on an individual name, highlighting it, and send a message — a whisper — that will be seen only by the selected person.

Derived terms

* stage whisper * whisper campaign

Verb

(en verb)

To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.

To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.

* Bentley

They might buzz and whisper it one to another.

To make a low, sibilant sound.

* Thomson

the hollow, whispering breeze

To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.

* Bible, Psalms xli. 7

All that hate me whisper together against me.

(obsolete) To address in a whisper, or low voice.

* Shakespeare

and whisper one another in the ear

* Keble

where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed

(obsolete) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.

* Shakespeare

He came to whisper Wolsey.

sighed

English

Verb

(head)

(sigh)

Anagrams

sigh

English

Noun

(en noun)

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

Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.

(Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.

Verb

(en 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.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=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.’}}

To lament; to grieve.

* Bible, Mark viii. 12

He sighed deeply in his spirit.

To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

To experience an emotion associated with sighing.

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 .

To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

* Shakespeare

Never man sighed truer breath.

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

* Shakespeare

They sighed forth proverbs.

* Hoole

The gentle swain sighs back her grief.

(archaic) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

* Prior

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

Interjection

(en interjection)

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.