impatient

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  1. adjective Unable to wait patiently or tolerate delay; restless.
  2. adjective Unable to endure irritation or opposition; intolerant: impatient of criticism.
  3. adjective Expressing or produced by impatience: an impatient scowl.
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  • Overbury held out so long that Rochester became impatient, and in a letter to Lady Essex, expressed his wonder that things were not sooner despatched. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • But Maulbow was also strained and impatient, and if his impatience could be increased a little more, he might start telling the things that really mattered, the things Gefty had to know. —  The Winds of Time
  • Your desires are impotent and impatient, the means to carry you on are weak and lame, nowise accommodated or fit for such a journey, and this puts you always, as it were, on the rack, tormented between the impatience of your lusts, and the impotency of means, and impossibility to fulfil them. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • He's pacin' up and down outside the brass rail kind of impatient, and as I appears he's just consultin' his watch. —  Torchy As A Pa
  • "He gets impatient, that is all. —  The Hoyden
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  1. Middle English impacient, from Old French impatient, from Latin impatiēns, impatient- : in-, not; see in-1 + patiēns, present participle of patī, to suffer, endure; see patient.

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  1. from Middle English impatient, from Old French impacient, French impatient = Provencal impacient = Spanish Portuguese impaciente = Italian impaziente, from Latin impatien(t-)s, inpatien(t-)s, that cannot or will not bear or endure, impatient, from in- privative + patien(t-)s, bearing, enduring, suffering: see patient.
 

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