Antonym: patience. Similar words: patience, patient, compatible, science, audience, sapience, experience, compatibility. Meaning: [ɪm'peɪʃns] n. 1. a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay 2. a restless desire for change and excitement 3. a dislike of anything that causes delay.
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(151) He was unable to rein in his impatience any longer.
(152) The disquietude of his air, the somewhat apprehensive impatience of his manner, surprised me.
(153) Her impatience when she sometimes asked me to go on reading seemed to come from the hope that all this imbecility would eventually play itself out.
(154) He awaited each new stroke with impatience and -- he knew not why -- apprehension.
(155) Ultimately what drives trade conflict is when the trade surplus country cannot adjust quickly,(www.Sentencedict.com) while high unemployment in the trade deficit country creates impatience for rapid change.
(156) A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked a tear of disappointment and impatience.
(157) Hurry up, your father is beginning to fidget, ie show signs of impatience.
(158) She sat in an agony of impatience which affected every feature.
(159) There is a certain impatience among some of the soldiers.
(160) As she obtained the clue to their import, her impatience could not admit of delay.
(161) The surgeonexplained to Babilart with growing impatience that "seminal vapour"released during the sex act had moved up through the woman's uterus andinto the fallopian tubes.
(162) The horses were pawing the ground in their impatience to start.
(163) But insiders said no communication expressing impatience has been made to Liverpool as the board hunts for an investor to clear the debt, finance a new stadium and strengthen the playing squad.
(164) I saw the beauty of Shangri-la, the meretricious of Dali, the impatience of Lijiang, and the uneducated people of Yunnan.
(165) Impatience with extrinsic subject - matter has been characteristic of the modern movement.
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