resigned
adjective
[ rɪˈzʌɪnd ]
• having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about.
• "my response is a resigned shrug of the shoulders"
resign
verb
• voluntarily leave a job or office.
• "he resigned from the company in protest of the treatment of his co-workers"
Similar:
leave,
go,
hand in one's notice,
give in one's notice,
give notice,
stand down,
step down,
bow out,
walk out,
quit,
call it a day,
• accept that something undesirable cannot be avoided.
• "she resigned herself to a lengthy session"
Similar:
reconcile oneself to,
become resigned to,
become reconciled to,
have no choice but to accept,
come to terms with,
learn to live with,
get used to the idea of,
give in to the inevitable,
grin and bear it,
patient,
long-suffering,
uncomplaining,
forbearing,
tolerant,
stoical,
philosophical,
unprotesting,
reconciled,
fatalistic,
acquiescent,
compliant,
unresisting,
non-resistant,
passive,
submissive,
subdued,
docile,
phlegmatic,
longanimous,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French resigner, from Latin resignare ‘unseal, cancel’, from re- ‘back’ + signare ‘sign, seal’.
