resigned

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of resign.

   He resigned his post the moment the scandal broke.

   Two board members resigned in protest at yesterday's vote.

   Note

   One regular -ed spelling does three jobs: simple past (she resigned), perfect (she has resigned) and passive (the title was resigned to her heir). It works with an object or without one, as in resigned his seat or resigned in protest. Keep it apart from re-signed, meaning signed again, as with a contract. Dropping that hyphen is frowned upon. In he was resigned to it, the word has crossed into the adjective of quiet acceptance.

2. 2
   adjective

   Marked by quiet acceptance of something unwelcome, without resistance or complaint.

   There was a resigned look on his face as he read the rejection letter.

   By the third delay, the passengers had grown resigned to missing their connection.

   Similaraccepting, fatalistic, stoical, uncomplaining, defeated

   Oppositedefiant, rebellious, resistant

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