: feeling or showing acceptance that something unwanted or unpleasant will happen or cannot be changed
a resigned sigh
They had the resigned manners of long-term detainees.—Jonathan Raban
—often used with toHe was fifty-seven years old and resigned to the fact that the rest of his days would be spent in convenient bachelorhood …—James A. Michener
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the cold ground.—Edna St. Vincent Millay
… Mr. Ogata is resigned to his life rather than contented.—James Sterngold
resignedly
adverb
With a gleam in his eye and a twinkle in his lens, he seems to tell us sweetly, sadly, rather resignedly that a little absurdity, a bit of imbalance is about what we should expect from life.
—Vicki Goldberg
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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