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resigned

UK/ɹɪˈzaɪnd/US/ɹɪˈzaɪnd/
adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Resigned means accepting something unpleasant because fighting it is pointless. Not agreement — surrender without bitterness.

It takes to, so resigned to the delay or resigned to his fate. The word describes a settled state rather than a decision, and a resigned sigh is one of the standard gestures of British life. There is a completely separate meaning from resigning a job, which is an action rather than an attitude, and only context tells you which of the two you are reading.

Definitions of resigned

  1. 1adjectiveresignedAccepting something unpleasant that cannot be changed.C1

    “She seemed resigned to spending the day in the queue.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 6 of A Man Called Ove.

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resigned in the wild

  • Sixteen persons have resigned from the Senate twice and two have resigned three times.

    Resignation from the United States Senate

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.