resigned

Speech parts

1. resigned - Adjective

2. resigned - Verb

Meaning

of Resign

Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

meek left stoic leave accept abandoned patient philosophical passive resign quit yielding deserted tolerant renounce

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Antonyms

bow-wow accepted determined dominant comic competitive

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Phrases with the word

becoming resigned to resigned voice become resigned to

Anagrams

designer redesign

Examples

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. John Chrysostom

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. Bob Woodward

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. Graham Greene

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. Charles Baudelaire

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. Ignazio Silone

Close letter words and terms

resignation syndrome resignationism resignatory resigned voice resignedly resignedness