impatient

Speech parts

1. impatient - Noun

2. impatient - Adjective

3. impatient - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under.

Not to be borne; unendurable.

Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies.

One who is impatient.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

restless eager intolerant fretful raring curt forward cross hot dying nervous sick angry excited keen
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Antonyms

patient airy controlled willing cool waiting
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Phrases with the word

impatient to

Examples

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. Craig Raine

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. George Mason

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. William Ellery Channing

He who is not impatient is not in love. Italian Proverb

The impatient person eats goat; the one who hesitates eats beef. South African Proverb

A human being is quite impatient. Kashmir Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Impatiens parviflora Impatiens parviflora subsp. parviflora Impatiens sodenii impatient to impatiently impatientness