Resigned vs. Patient — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Resigned and Patient
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Resigned
Feeling or marked by resignation; acquiescent
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do" (Willa Cather).
Patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, psychologist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.
Resigned
Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
Patient
Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness
Tried to remain patient when the airline announced the flight was delayed.
Resigned
Simple past tense and past participle of resign
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Patient
Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance
Responded to the accusations with a patient smile.
Resigned
Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.
A firm, yet cautious mind;Sincere, though prudent; constant, yet resigned.
Patient
Tolerant; understanding
An unfailingly patient leader and guide.
Resigned
(followed by `to') having come to accept;
Resigned to his fate
Patient
Persevering; constant
With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
Resigned
Showing utter resignation or hopelessness;
Abject surrender
Patient
Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
Patient
Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance
“My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries” (Laurence Sterne).
Patient
One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
Patient
(Linguistics) A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.
Patient
(Obsolete) One who suffers.
Patient
(of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
Patient
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
Patient endeavour
A patient wait
Patient analysis
Patient
(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient
A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
Patient
The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
Patient
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Patient
Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient of severest toil and hardship.
Patient
Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
Patient
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
Patient
Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
Not patient to expect the turns of fate.
Patient
Forbearing; long-suffering.
Be patient toward all men.
Patient
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient.
Patient
A person under medical or surgical treatment; - correlative to physician or nurse.
Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.
Patient
To compose, to calm.
Patient
A person who requires medical care;
The number of emergency patients has grown rapidly
Patient
The semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
Patient
Enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance;
A patient smile
Was patient with the children
An exact and patient scientist
Please be patient
Patient
Enduring without protest or complaint
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