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IMPATIENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') full of eagerness
Example:
raring to go
Synonyms:
impatient; raring
Classified under:
Similar:
eager (having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy)
Derivation:
impatience (a restless desire for change and excitement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition
Example:
impatient of criticism
Classified under:
Similar:
restive (impatient especially under restriction or delay)
unforbearing (unwilling to endure)
Also:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Antonym:
patient (enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance)
Derivation:
impatience (a dislike of anything that causes delay)
impatience (a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay)
Context examples:
“Oh! Personally!” repeated Mr. Jorkins, in an impatient manner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Lady Dalrymple's carriage, for which Miss Elliot was growing very impatient, now drew up; the servant came in to announce it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Let me hear from you without delay; I am impatient for a thousand particulars.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And the danger of it; for if this Hyde suspects the existence of the will, he may grow impatient to inherit.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"Well, sir," said Elinor, who, though pitying him, grew impatient for his departure, "and this is all?"
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But I was impatient to arrive at the termination of my journey.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Don’t be impatient, said Snow-white, I will help you, and she pulled her scissors out of her pocket, and cut off the end of the beard.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Elizabeth listened, wondered, doubted, and was impatient for more.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was one of my friend’s most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Does your chest trouble often make you feel impatient?
(AQ20 - Chest Trouble Make You Feel Impatient, NCI Thesaurus)
