resignedly

1. 1.

   with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner

   “resignedly, I telegraphed back that it was all right with me if he insisted”
2. 2.

   in a hopeless resigned manner

   “she shrugged her shoulders abjectly”

   Synonymsabjectly

Questions about resignedly

What does resignedly mean?

resignedly means "with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in resignedly?

resignedly has 4 syllables: re-sig-ned-ly. The stress falls on "sig".

What is another word for resignedly?

Close synonyms include abjectly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is resignedly a common word?

resignedly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.