resigned Definition

resign
verb resigned, resigning

intr
1. To give up employment or an official position, etc.

Thesaurus: step down, vacate, abidcate, quit, leave.
Form: resign from a job, post (often)
2. To give up or relinquish (a right, claim, etc).

Thesaurus: abandon, forsake, sacrifice, yield, renounce, abdicate, cede, forgo, relinquish, surrender, waive; Antonym: join, maintain.
3. To come to accept it with patience, tolerance, etc, especially when it is unpleasant or unwelcome; to submit to it.

Thesaurus: submit, yield, accept, bow, comply, acquiesce, reconcile, accede; Antonym: resist.
Form: resign oneself to something (usually)

Derivative: resignation

The act of resigning from a job, official position, etc.
Thesaurus: retirement, leaving, abdication, departure.

A formal letter or notice of intention to resign from a job, post, etc.

The state or quality of having or showing patient and calm acceptance, especially of something unpleasant or something that is seen as inevitable.
Thesaurus: surrender, abandonment, relinquishment, forbearing; Antonym: resistance.

Derivative: resigner
noun

Etymology: 14c: from French résigner, from Latin resignare to unseal or cancel.

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resigned
adj

1. Having or showing patient and calm acceptance of something, usually something unpleasant or unwelcome, that is considered inevitable.

Thesaurus: submissive, compliant, patient, stoical, unresisting, subdued, acquiescent, defeatist, long-suffering, unprotesting.
Form: resigned to something (often)

Derivative: resignedly
adverb

Derivative: resignedness
noun

Etymology: 17c.