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adjective

Impatient adj.

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. "A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity." "Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise." "The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him." "Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty."

Not to be borne; unendurable. (Obs.)

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

Synonyms: Restless; uneasy; changeable; hot; eager; fretful; intolerant; passionate.

noun

Impatient n. One who is impatient. (R.)

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"Impatient" Quotes from Famous Books

... as impatient of doctors as of divines; pretending that my wife was ailing, and that it was more convenient for our good Doctor Heberden to visit her in Clarges Street than to travel all the way to our Lambeth lodgings, we got ...

— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... He smoked and looked at his watch frequently. The stars came out and the moon rose full. The fire burned down and the water cooled in the kettle. Whatever was detaining her? Impatient at first, Disston finally grew worried. He ate a little cold food that he found, and started to walk ...

— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart

... Terence did nothing but play. He played simple little tunes at first, but soon he began to play harder ones. Then he got impatient with himself, as it seemed, and he began to play such music as nobody who heard him had ever heard before. Often he would not play when he was asked, but he would play for hours by himself, when he thought that no one ...

— Fairies and Folk of Ireland • William Henry Frost

... her and went back to his hotel, where he overhauled his outfit and wrote some letters. His disgust of the town was lessened by the presence of that handsome girl, and the hope that he might see her at luncheon made him impatient ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... ferry neared the bank my heart beat fast, for I saw the waiting figures were soldiers! There were five of them and they seemed impatient. Before the barge had touched the shore they had jumped aboard, not noticing me walk off. They were without rifles, this struck me at the time as very significant, and the soldiers began to hurriedly work the ferry ...

— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor

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