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resignation - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relinquishment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | departure, giving up, notice, renunciation, surrender, termination, withdrawal, abandonment, abdication, leaving, quitting, retirement, tendering, vacating |
| Antonyms: | agreement, taking on |
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endurance, passivity |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acquiescence, compliance, conformity, deference, forbearing, fortitude, humility, meekness, modesty, patience, submission, docility, humbleness, longanimity, lowliness, nonresistance, patientness, resignedness, submissiveness, sufferance |
| Antonyms: | impatience, intolerance, resistance |
| Main Entry: | acquiescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reluctant agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, approval, assent, compliance, concurrence, conformity, consent, obedience, permission, resignation, submission, yielding, giving in, submissiveness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, insubordination, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | capitulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving in |
| Synonyms: | giving up, resignation, submission, surrender, yielding, accedence, bowing, buckling, conceding, knuckling under, relenting, succumbing |
| Antonyms: | fight, fighting, defending |
| Main Entry: | compliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, assent, complaisance, concession, concurrence, conformity, consent, deference, obedience, observance, resignation, submission, yielding, amenability, docility, passivity, submissiveness, tractability |
| Antonyms: | defiance, denial, disagreement, disobedience, dissension, dissent, fight, nonconformity, refusal, veto |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, avoidance, betrayal, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, divorce, escape, evasion, flight, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retreat, secession, treachery, withdrawal, absconding, apostasy, backsliding, castoff, defecting, departing, disavowal, disavowing, elusion, falling away, falseness, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, relinquishment, retirement, running out on, tergiversation, truancy |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | forbearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resisting, avoidance |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, endurance, fortitude, moderation, patience, resignation, restraint, self-control, temperance, tolerance, going easy on, living with, longanimity, patientness, refraining |
| Antonyms: | continuation, indulgence, involvement, use, pursual |
| Main Entry: | humiliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embarrassment |
| Synonyms: | abasement, affront, chagrin, comedown*, comeuppance, condescension, confusion, degradation, discomfiture, disgrace, dishonor, ignominy, indignity, mortification, put-down, resignation, shame, submission, humbling, loss of face, mental pain, self-abasement, submissiveness, touché |
| Antonyms: | elevation, flattery, glorification, praise, success, triumph |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness, modesty |
| Synonyms: | abasement, bashfulness, diffidence, fawning, inferiority complex, meekness, mortification, obedience, passiveness, reserve, resignation, shyness, timidity, demureness, docility, lack of pride, lowliness, nonresistance, obsequiousness, self-abasement, self-abnegation, servility, sheepishness, subjection, submissiveness, subservience, timorousness, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness |
| Antonyms: | arrogance, egoism, pride, self-importance, assertiveness, pretentiousness |
| Main Entry: | mortification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humiliation |
| Synonyms: | abasement, affront, bring down, chagrin, condescension, degradation, disgrace, dishonor, embarrassment, ignominy, put-down, resignation, shame, humbling, loss of face |
| Main Entry: | patience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, willingness to endure |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, bearing, calmness, composure, constancy, cool*, diligence, endurance, equanimity, forbearance, fortitude, grit*, guts*, heart, humility, intestinal fortitude*, leniency, long-suffering, moderation, moxie*, passiveness, perseverance, persistence, poise, resignation, restraint, self-control, serenity, starch*, staying power*, stoicism, submission, tolerance, yielding, even temper, gutsiness, imperturbability, legs, longanimity, nonresistance, passivity, sufferance, toleration |
| Notes: | patience means the capacity to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming angry or upset; patients are people who requires medical care |
| Antonyms: | agitation, frustration, impatience, intolerance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | renunciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment, rejection |
| Synonyms: | abnegation, abstention, cancellation, denial, disclaimer, forbearing, giving up, rebuff, refusal, remission, repeal, repudiation, resignation, sacrifice, self-denial, surrender, veto, waiver, yielding, abdication, abjuration, disavowal, eschewal, eschewing, forswearing, relinquishment, renouncement, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice, spurning |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, condonement |
| Main Entry: | submission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, appeasement, assent, capitulation, cringing, deference, humility, meekness, obedience, prostration, resignation, surrender, yielding, backing down, bowing, defeatism, docility, giving in, humbleness, malleability, nonresistance, passivism, passivity, pliabilty, recreancy, servility, subjection, submissiveness, submitting, tractability, unassertiveness |
| Antonyms: | fight, resistance |
| Main Entry: | waiver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving up; letting go |
| Synonyms: | disclaimer, foregoing, postponement, refusal, rejection, remission, renunciation, reservation, resignation, surrender, abandonment, abdication, relinquishment, setting aside, tabling |
| Antonyms: | accept, claim, face |
| Main Entry: | withdrawal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal; retraction |
| Synonyms: | alienation, departure, disclaimer, egress, exit, exodus, extraction, recall, repudiation, resignation, retreat, revocation, revulsion, secession, abandonment, abdication, abjuration, disavowal, disengagement, egression, exiting, marooning, palinode, recantation, relinquishment, rescission, retirement |
| Antonyms: | remainder, stay |
| Main Entry: | passiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apathy |
| Synonyms: | indifference, resignation, unconcern, disinterest, emotionlessness, passivity |
| Main Entry: | conformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, allegiance, assent, consent, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, resignation, submission, willingness, conventionality, docility |
| Antonyms: | difference, fight, refusal, noncomformity |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
| Synonyms: | ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, fortitude, grit, guts, heart*, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch*, strength, submission, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, vitality, will, forebearance, gutsiness, holding up, pertinacity, sufferance, toleration, undergoing, withstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, overthrow |
| Synonyms: | abasement, breakdown, capitulation, collapse, death, degradation, destruction, diminution, disaster, dive, downfall, drop, failure, humiliation, loss, resignation, ruin, surrender, tumble |
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