Acceptance of despair.

synoniem: surrender.

Roget 782: relinquishment, abandonment etc. (of a course) 624; renunciation, expropriation^†, dereliction; cession, surrender, dispensation; quitclaim deed; resignation etc. 757; riddance.    derelict etc. adj.; foundling; jetsam, waif.    discards, culls, rejects; garbage, refuse, rubbish.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 879: humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood^†; abasement, self-abasement; submission etc. 725; resignation.    condescension; affability etc. (courtesy) 894.    modesty etc. 881; verecundity^†, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame, sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 859: hopelessness etc. adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression etc. (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.    abandonment, desolation; resignation, surrender, submission etc. 725.    hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation etc. (disappointment) 509.    airy hopes etc. etc. 858; forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon [U.S.]; goner [Slang]; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu [Fr.]; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus [Lat.].    ... meer laten zien

Roget 826: inexcitability^†, imperturbability, inirritability^†; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth [Coll.].    passiveness etc. (physical inertness) 172; hebetude^†, hebetation^†; impassibility etc. (insensibility) 823; stupefaction.    coolness, calmness etc. adj.; composure, placidity, indisturbance^†, imperturbation^†, sang froid [Fr.], tranquility, serenity; quiet, quietude; peace of mind, mental calmness.    staidness etc. adj.; gravity, sobriety, Quakerism^†; philosophy, equanimity, stoicism, command of temper; self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins; presence of mind.    submission etc. 725; resignation; sufferance, supportance^†, endurance, longsufferance^†, forbearance; longanimity^†; fortitude; patience of Job, patience on a monument" [Twelfth Night], patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill'" [Johnson]; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint etc. 751.    tranquillization etc. (moderation) 174^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 757: resignation, retirement, abdication, renunciation, abjuration; abandonment, relinquishment.   

Roget 743: obedience; observance etc. 772; compliance; submission etc. 725; subjection etc. 749; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation.    allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy, fidelity.    submissness^†, submissiveness; ductility etc. (softness) 324; obsequiousness etc. (servility) 886.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 725: submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience etc. 743.    surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown^†.    obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion^†, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 624: relinquishment, abandonment; desertion, defection, secession, withdrawal; cave of Adullam^†; nolle prosequi [Lat.].    discontinuance etc. (cessation) 142; renunciation etc. (recantation) 607; abrogation etc. 756; resignation etc. (retirement) 757; desuetude etc. 614; cession etc. (of property) 782.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 831: content, contentment, contentedness; complacency, satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind; serenity etc. 826; cheerfulness etc. 836; ray of comfort; comfort etc. (well-being) 827.    reconciliation; resignation etc. (patience) 826.    [person who is contented] waiter on Providence.    ... meer laten zien

The act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.).

Pools: rezygnacja

A formal document giving notice of your intention to resign.