Resigning Synonyms and Antonyms

Give up or retire from a position
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. quitting
  2. terminating
  3. abdicating
  4. retiring
  5. leaving
Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. yielding
  2. surrendering
  3. renouncing
  4. vacating
  5. relinquishing
  6. freeing
  7. waiving
  8. withdrawing
  9. abandoning
  10. submitting
  11. rendering
  12. abdicating
  13. quitclaiming
  14. quitting
  15. forswearing
  16. ceding
  17. forsaking
  18. releasing
Antonyms:
  1. agreeing
Accept as inevitable
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. reconciling
  2. submitting
To relinquish (a privilege, right, or claim).
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. relinquishing

Words Related to Resigning

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Resigning Sentence Examples

  • Resigning from the army in 1836, he became a civil engineer and constructor of railways, and was engaged under the war department in survey work.

  • Resigning the secretaryship in 1848, he was elected to the national House of Representatives as an anti-slavery Whig to succeed John Quincy Adams, and was re-elected in 1849, and, as an independent candidate, in 1850, serving until March 1853.

  • Resigning office in March 1878, he resumed the practice of law, and secured the annulment of Garibaldi's marriage.

  • He was given the degree of Doctor of Letters in the university of Calcutta and accepted a knighthood in 1915, but addressed a letter to the Viceroy in 1919, resigning the title as a protest against the methods adopted for the repression of disturbances in the Punjab.

  • There may be a difficulty in fixing responsibility upon any person, or small group of persons; because cases may arise in which the executive, being unable to act without the concurrence of the legislature, can hardly be blamed for failing to act, while yet it is unable to relieve itself by resigning; while on.

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