impatience
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2.5
- noun
- /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/
:
impaciencia
- You must learn to manage your impatience when waiting in long lines at the store.
- express impatience
- growing impatience
- impatience with waiting
I have to clamp down on my impatience a little bit.
- I have to clamp down on my impatience a little bit.
- So I've always seen my impatience as being a negative thing.
- So I think it was like the early exposure combined with like the impatience and need to have it.
- Let's see here, Sean Videl says you talk a lot about your impatience.
- My tech, Chris Miller, will testify to some of that impatience to like, now I want the sound now, you know, I'm ready to play.
- Like there's things that were not in his power and he made sure you knew it and he made sure you shared his impatience.
- The irritation, the stress, the dislike, the impatience, the complaining.
- And stomachs don't talk a lot about impatience as such.
- It's a little frustration and impatience, a frustration.
- And in that impatience is a very important point, my friends.
Examples
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We were in a fever of impatience; we were dying to see the renowned cathedral!
Academic text (1994) -
My learning proceeds at a snail's pace, much too slow for my impatience and eagerness.
Academic text (1998) -
And in that impatience is a very important point, my friends.
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You have to have massive impatience on yourself that today you need to deliver effort.
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What should I do about this impatience in my heart?
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Here I am, burning with impatience to see you.
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How do you deal with impatience and ego in learning?
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Because one moment of impatience can ruin a whole life.
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I find it difficult to control my impatience Your Majesty.
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His voice betrayed his impatience at having missed out on some event in the case.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
391
2.5
A feeling of anger or annoyance when you cannot get what you want
27
3.6
A feeling of annoyance or anger
26
2.8
The feeling you have when something bothers you
15
5.7
A strong feeling of being very annoyed and impatient
12
3.8
Unable to sit still and relax because of worry, boredom or impatience
12
5.1
A feeling of nervous worry and restlessness
1
7.3
A tendency to become easily annoyed and impatient
A strong feeling of anger and impatience
A strong feeling of anger and impatience
Antonyms
How Impatient
15
5.7
12
5.1
38
2.5
12
3.8
160
3.7
511
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Impatience comes from the word patient, which means 'able to wait', plus the im- part meaning 'not'. So impatience is the feeling of 'not being able to wait', often shown as restlessness or annoyance.