1. impatient - Noun
2. impatient - Adjective
3. impatient - Adjective Satellite
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 dictionaryGreat 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