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resigned

  • /ɹɪˈzaɪnd/

Rhymes with -aɪnd

adjective more resigned · most resigned

  1. Characterized by resignation or acceptance. If we were having this conversation 10 or 15 years ago, Ezra, we would be having it in a diagnosing a futile illness sort of way. The way that political scientists talked about this problem, the way that activists or people talk about this problem, for decades before was in a very resigned tone. The

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of resign

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: abject, hopeless, unhopeful, reconciled, resignation, quits, quit, withdrawn, retired, forsworn, dropped, abandoned, left, foregone, former, outgoing

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adj accepting of a situation or one's lot

Русскийсмири́вшийся smirívšijsja
العربيةاستقال

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@misc{resigned_2026,
  title = {resigned},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/resigned},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}