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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151 Seeing that he was getting impatient, Celestine sprung her surprise: a piece of academic scuttlebutt Lufkin had not known.
152 It was probably legally still mine, I thoughts as I watched it sending up impatient puffs of steam.
153 When he gets really impatient, his keeper says, he starts rolling his head around or making snuffling noises.
154 She is impatient at what she regards as generalities in memos from colleagues and civil servants - even when she agrees with them.
155 It turned out that, among his other endearing qualities, George was an exceedingly impatient man.
156 The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient, reined-in horsepower.
157 Sir Alfred had spent enough of Rubery Owen's profits and was impatient for success.
158 She was also impatient with a number of departments for displaying less than whole-hearted devotion to her policies.
159 Impatient as ever I skipped the help and went straight for the action!
160 What was the trouble today? she wondered, as impatient horn blasts began to sound.
161 On several occasions she has been hurried through them by impatient attorneys and by irate psychopaths on their way to methadone-maintenance clinics.
162 And then an impatient male voice had shouted from the cockpit above.
163 There was something deceitful and impatient about the smiling look in his eyes.
164 A number of young economists, impatient with such fusty arguments, began searching for new models.
165 They were more often obnoxious than not, impatient with me because my services had been essentially imposed upon them.
166 He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.
167 They may be impatient, hurried and quick tempered in an acute illness.
168 For the truth was, nomatterhow hard I found to suppress it, I was becoming impatient with Jim.
169 I could see that Max was getting impatient with me.
170 I was impatient, I wished he would move faster before a guard saw him.
171 Then, through the rain, she heard a scratching sound, followed by a sharp, impatient bark.
172 Carlos was tactful and forbearing even when I was impatient and angry.
173 The line became instantly popular and managements all over the world were impatient to snap them up whenever they were free.
174 Impatient with committee work, he was at his best when exploring new paths and communicating his enthusiasms to others.
175 The flies were troubling them and they blew through distended nostrils, or shook their heads, or stamped an impatient hoof.
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176 David discovered to his annoyance that he was becoming impatient already for the end of the evening.
177 The impatient gesture of the guard who had escorted her caught Isabel's eye.
178 When she was alive, she did not seem so impatient.
179 In contact with other women the separatist becomes more and more impatient with women who to them seem stubbornly bogged down in male values.
180 But she is impatient with people who ask teen-age girls why they get pregnant.
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