impatient
Meaning of impatient
adjective
- having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked.
an impatient motorist blaring his horn
she can be impatient with people who don't see things her way
- restlessly eager.
they are impatient for change
he was impatient to be on his way
late Middle English (in the senses ‘lacking patience’ and ‘unbearable’): via Old French from Latin impatient- ‘not bearing, impatient’, from in- ‘not’ + pati ‘suffer, bear’.
Information about impatient
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of impatient
im-pa-tient
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- impatient is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
impatient synonyms
Meaning raring:
Meaning showing or feeling slight anger; annoyed:
Meaning slightly angry; irritated:
Meaning feeling or showing strong annoyance, displeasure, or hostility; full of anger:
Meaning easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered:
Meaning irritable and bad-tempered:
Meaning irritable and inclined to speak sharply; snappish:
Meaning annoyed:
Meaning irritable:
Meaning (of a person) given to unpredictable changes of mood, especially sudden bouts of gloominess or sullenness:
Meaning bad-tempered and irritable:
Meaning complaining in a rather petulant or whining manner:
Meaning feeling or expressing distress or irritation:
Meaning having or showing an irritable disposition:
Meaning annoy or irritate:
Meaning arouse (interest or curiosity):
Meaning dissatisfied, especially with one's circumstances:
Meaning feeling or showing annoyance and displeasure:
Meaning angry or dissatisfied:
Meaning not tolerant of views, beliefs, or behaviour that differ from one's own:
Meaning sudden and unexpected:
Meaning rudely brief:
Meaning abrupt or offhand in speech or manner:
Meaning sparing in the use of words; abrupt:
Meaning measuring a small distance from end to end:
Meaning (of an offence) made more serious by attendant circumstances:
Meaning irritable and bad-tempered; grumpy; complaining:
Meaning bad-tempered or irritable:
Meaning resembling or characteristic of a rat:
Meaning rich in or covered with egg:
Meaning bad-tempered or annoyed:
Meaning unable to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom:
Meaning (of a person) unable to remain still, silent, or submissive, especially because of boredom or dissatisfaction:
Meaning feeling or appearing troubled or nervous:
Meaning easily agitated or alarmed:
Meaning very eager or concerned to do something or for something to happen:
Meaning tense, nervous, or irritable:
Meaning (of a person) anxious and uneasy:
Meaning nervous or unable to relax:
Meaning easily agitated or alarmed; nervous:
Meaning nervous; anxious:
Meaning anxious or angry in a tense and overly controlled way:
Meaning strongly wanting to do or have something:
Meaning having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm:
Meaning having or showing a keen interest in or enthusiasm for something:
Meaning having or characterized by desire:
Meaning involving or expressing yearning:
Meaning having or showing a yearning desire:
Meaning having an ache in a part of one's body:
Meaning be the site of or cause an itch:
Meaning on the point of death:
Meaning characteristic of choking or retching:
impatient antonyms
Meaning feeling or showing pleasure and satisfaction, especially at an event or a situation:
Meaning not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions:
Meaning having no particular interest or sympathy; unconcerned:
Meaning unwilling and hesitant; disinclined:
Translation of impatient
- Spanish: impaciente
- Italian: impaziente
Words that rhyme with impatient
abient, ambient, circumambient, proambient, unambient, Calefacient, Immunodeficient, Omniscient, abortifacient, absorbefacient, algefacient, allicient, ancient, antiabortifacient, beneficient, calefacient, calorifacient, coefficient, conficient, conscient, deficient, delirifacient, efficient, ejicient, expergefacient, facient, febrifacient, hyperefficient, immunifacient, immunodeficient, inconscient, indeficient, inefficient, inscient, insufficient, liquefacient, motofacient, mutafacient, nescient, nonconficient, nondeficient, nonefficient, nonnescient, nonprescient, nonproficient, objicient, omninescient, omniscient, omnisufficient, overproficient
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