resignation
23
4.2
- noun
- /ˌrɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən/
:
resignación
- The boy saw the shame and resignation on her face and looked away.
- resignation to death
- resignation and passivity
- provisional resignation
Not the same as passive resignation, but it's this gentle acceptance.
- Not the same as passive resignation, but it's this gentle acceptance.
- They are passions that fall within the realm of infinite resignation, not within faith.
- And so Moore had the sense of resignation about it.
- If you don't have that moment, most people stay so stuck in resignation.
- There can be a sadness, A resignation, A heaviness, but it's no longer a helplessness.
- So this is a very positive characterization of infinite resignation.
- And so I felt, you know, fairly hopeless and and there was a bit of, I guess, resignation.
- And I mean, I think the thing that people struggle with the most when it comes to Stoicism is this it, it, it, it's often associated with like sort of resignation.
- Fear, confusion, guilt, lack of information, lack of knowledge, children, money, religion, culture, hope, resignation.
- There's such resignation, but look, the cool kids over there, they have flip phones and they're out like every day after school.
Examples
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But in her state of apathetic resignation, she did not ask questions.
Fiction book (1990) -
I didn't know how I would ever get out of it and was feeling emotions of resignation, of defeat.
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But you could tell that he said it out of resignation, not out of conviction.
Fiction book (1990) -
Therefore, and with regret, I accept your resignation of all your offices and matters of state.
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Then a look of resignation slid across her face, and she sat down again.
Fiction book (1991) -
"Yes," he acknowledged, his eyes warm and gentle on her, a trace of resignation in their depths.
Fiction book (1994) -
I thought I caught a look of sad resignation somewhere under the visor and behind the sunglasses.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now the woman is drawn up into an arc of dignified resignation, her head cloaked in shadow.
Academic text (1993) -
In my country, Mr. Fogg, it is said that misfortune if shared with another sympathetic spirit, can be borne with resignation.
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The employee submitted his resignation after years of being unhappy at work.
Synonyms
100
3.2
Stopping trying because you think you cannot succeed
77
4.2
Giving up after defeat, for example when an army stops fighting
11
8.5
Agreeing to something without complaining even if you do not want to
5
8.3
Giving up in a fight or war under agreed terms
3
8.4
A feeling that failure is sure to happen so people stop trying
Antonyms
How Accepting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Resignation also comes from the same root sign, with the meaning 'giving up' or 'handing something over'. So a look of resignation is the quiet acceptance of a bad situation when you stop fighting it.