impatient
/ɪmˈpeɪʃənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.55 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Restless, short of temper, and intolerant of delays.
adj
Anxious and eager, especially to begin or have something.
adj
Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.
Example Sentences
- "She dances when she becomes impatient."
- "The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him."
- "For, if (ſaid he) you throw among five Yahoos as much Food as would be ſufficient for fifty, they will, inſtead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each ſingle one impatient to have all to itſelf; […]"
- "Dismayed with so defperate deadly wound, And eke impatient of unwonted payne, He lowdly bray'd with beastly yelling sownd"
- "impatient speeches or replies"
- "What, will you tear / Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?"
Etymology
From Old French impacient (modern French impatient), from Latin impatiēns. By surface analysis, im- + patient.
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: impacient, impatiēns