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resignation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of resignation

1 the action or condition of enduring hardship or discomfort without resisting or attempting to improve it

They had reached a state of resignation to being broke.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of resignation

acquiescence, submission, submissiveness

passiveness, passivity

cynicism, defeatism, pessimism

blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolation, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolor, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, gloom, gloominess, joylessness, melancholy, mopes, oppression, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness

self-despair, self-pity

dolefulness, mournfulness, sorrowfulness, woefulness

agony, distress, pain

misery, woe, wretchedness

despair, desperation, despond, despondence, despondency, forlornness, hopelessness

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of resignation

cheer, cheerfulness, sunniness

hope, hopefulness

gaiety (also gayety), glee, gleefulness, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness

defiance, resistance

2 the act or practice of giving up something (such as a job or position)

The senator abruptly announced his resignation following news of the scandal.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of resignation

abdication, departing, departure, exit, exiting, leave, leaving, quitting, retirement, stepping down

relinquishment, renouncement, surrender

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of resignation

adoption, embrace, embracement, espousal

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