RESIGNEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resignedly mean? 

• RESIGNEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb RESIGNEDLY has 2 senses:

1. with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner

2. in a hopeless resigned manner

  Familiarity information: RESIGNEDLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIGNEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner

Context example:

resignedly, I telegraphed back that it was all right with me if he insisted

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a hopeless resigned manner

Synonyms:

abjectly; resignedly

Context example:

she shrugged her shoulders abjectly

 Context examples 

As to his liver, said the Old Soldier resignedly, that, of course, he gave up altogether, when he first went out!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He became quite quiet, and went and sat on the edge of his bed resignedly, and looked into space with lack-lustre eyes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She nodded her head resignedly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was useless for me to explain to him that his presence was an intrusion, for my Italian was even more limited than his English, so I shrugged my shoulders resignedly, and continued to look out anxiously for my friend.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Be it so, Clarissa!” assented Miss Lavinia resignedly—“to me—and receiving our concurrence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)