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impatient(dictionary)

impatient (iou)



impatient adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin impatient-, -ens, formed as IM-2 + PATIENT adjective.]
A. adjective.
Intolerable, unbearable. LME-M17.
Lacking patience; irritable, intolerant, easily provoked. LME.
Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream Will you tear Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? C. G. Wolff She certainly perceived her mother as remote, disapproving, impatient and unloving.
b. Unable or unwilling to endure or put up with something; intolerant of. Also foll. by at, with. L15.
U. S. Grant They were growing impatient at lying idle so long. L. Gordon He was impatient of the kind of research that seemed incapable of fruitful conclusions.
Unwilling to endure delay; in a hurry for, to do. L16.
Janet Morgan He was impatient for more authority.
Characterized by or expressive of impatience. E18.
M. Shadbolt There was an impatient knock on the glass..: someone else was waiting.
b. noun. An impatient person. E16.
impatiently adverb LME.
impatientness noun (long rare or obsolete) M16.