Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unpatient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-pa-tient
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Forsothe he that is vnpacient, schal suffre harm; and whanne he hath rauyshid, he schal leie to anothir thing."
"Gond. That I hate truely, thou hadst better bin a devill. Orian. Why my unpatient Lord? Gond. Devils were once good, there they excell'd you wom[e]n."
"The Lord is King, be the people never so unpatient: he sitteth between the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet"

Etymology

From un- + patient.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more unpatient (comparative) most unpatient (superlative)

Derived Forms

unpatiently unpatientness

Questions

What does unpatient mean?: impatient
Where does unpatient come from?: From un- + patient.

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