Meaning | Restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition. |
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Examples | - "impatient with the slower students"
- "impatient of criticism"
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Narrower | restive | impatient especially under restriction or delay |
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unforbearing | Unwilling to endure |
See also | agitated | Troubled emotionally and usually deeply |
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Opposite | patient | enduring trying / trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance |
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Spanish | ansioso, deseoso, impaciente |
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Catalan | ansiós, frisós, impacient |
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Nouns | impatience | a dislike of anything that causes delay |
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impatience | a lack of patience |
Adverbs | impatiently | with impatience |
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