Synonym: anxious, eager, intolerant, restless. Antonym: patient. Similar words: impatience, patient, patience, compatible, compatibility, impairment, incompatibility, orientation. Meaning: [ɪm'peɪʃnt] adj. 1. restless or short of temper under delay or opposition 2. (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness.
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121 Habibi was an impatient horse and was always in a hurry to do everything before she was even asked.
122 She was eager to talk to Shildon and impatient for him to return from lunch.
123 The children grumble and fidget, getting more and more impatient.
124 The knots took some undoing and then finally an impatient Adam tore off the string before slowly removing the muslin.
125 The thing I have to do is not be impatient to play that well again.
126 He had killed her, not willingly, but driven by the Army impatient for good winds to sail to Troy.
127 The atmosphere was restless, impatient and mad, a word that kept cropping up.
128 Younger folk had grown impatient and were now signalling frantically a hundred yards ahead.
129 Worse still, she longed to reach up and smooth the ruffled disorder caused by his impatient gesture.
130 Don't be so impatient. I'm working as fast as I can.
131 Graham was only a little impatient, and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up.
132 That way, you stand a better chance of getting the impatient reader to absorb the essence of your message.
133 Not another word, a sigh, no raised eyebrow or even an impatient puff of cigar smoke.
134 Paine, like many idealists in a hurry, was probably impatient of the slowness of legal remedies for existing abuses.
135 Bear this in mind when you feel impatient or impolite.
136 He was too free with his strictures, and too impatient with restraint.
137 Impatient with herself(sentencedict.com), she went to shower and put on her red velvet dress.
138 He pulls away, past me, like a shark impatient to get back into the swim of things.
139 I stopped my car to observe more carefully what was going on, hoping the man behind me would not become impatient.
140 She was scowling and he felt slightly impatient with her.
141 He is also becoming more impatient with his traditionally inferior status.
142 The important thing is not to panic or become impatient because that way you could damage the document.
143 Compared with the lectures, the book is condensed, elliptical and impatient.
144 But now she was here there was so much to assimilate, and she felt impatient at being so unfit.
145 She grew impatient after a while and went looking for him.
146 Even his hair was distinctly ruffled(Sentencedict.com ), as though impatient fingers had been frequently run through it.
147 Sean was a touch impatient at the time which Valerie devoted to her mother.
148 For a while an old friend of the Mormons, Thomas L.. Kane, mediated and held off an impatient government.
149 Movie films always run over budget because the artistic temperament is impatient with detail.
150 This goes some way to explaining why the Republicans are so impatient to get back into the White House.
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