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resigned

resigned

4.2
Accepting something unpleasant without protest
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈzaɪnd/
translation icon : resignado
  • After years of trying to find a cure, she finally felt resigned to her diagnosis and accepted her situation.

Dead time is passive and waiting and, you know, resigned and a live time is embracing and living and doing.

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Examples

  • It's Ellie Mae, beautiful face, very proud and very sad and very resigned, but not giving up.

  • Dead time is passive and waiting and, you know, resigned and a live time is embracing and living and doing.

  • So she's resigned obviously, and slow down.

  • And this poem kind of came out of that, the resigned true.

  • He was resigned to the fact that he would not be promoted this year, despite his hard work.

  • Despite the challenges ahead, she remained resigned, knowing that fighting against it would only lead to more frustration.

Synonyms

acquiescent
vsresigned
1 8.4

Willing to accept rules or decisions without protest

accepts unpleasant or unwanted situations without protest or resistance
uncomplaining
vsresigned
1 6.1

Not showing you are unhappy when you have problems or pain

accepts without protest or resistance rather than only staying silent
yielding
vsresigned
4.8

Willing to agree easily and give up their own view

accepts without protest rather than being easily influenced

How Accepting

acquiescent
1 8.4
resigned
4.2
accepting
3.6
tolerant
72 3.2

Surface Forms

resigned positive

Morphology

resigned = resign (semi-transparent) = resign + ed

The form is regular (resign + -ed), but the adjectival sense 'accepting without protest' derives from the reflexive use 'resign oneself to', not the simple past/agentive meaning, so learners may not infer the correct sense from 'resign' = 'quit'.

Etymology

Resigned comes from the verb resign, made of re- 'back' and sign (like 'sign'), and it originally meant to 'give up' or hand something back. So, if you are resigned (accepting something unpleasant), you have 'given up' resisting and quietly accept the situation.