IMPATIENT


Meaning of IMPATIENT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

The children grumble and fidget, getting more and more impatient .

Some were more impatient than others.

In contact with other women the separatist becomes more and more impatient with women who to them seem stubbornly bogged down in male values.

He is also becoming more impatient with his traditionally inferior status.

so

Give it time, I know you, you're so impatient .

This goes some way to explaining why the Republicans are so impatient to get back into the White House.

That he satisfied so impatient and fastidious a monarch for so long says much for his efficiency and sensitivity.

When she was alive, she did not seem so impatient .

You are always so impatient , my dear boy.

I hated myself for being so impatient .

He had reached Buffalo at about five-thirty and was so impatient to see the Falls that he set off immediately after breakfast.

too

He was too free with his strictures, and too impatient with restraint.

She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing.

But, as I'd hoped, it was too impatient .

Lott, only a junior, was too impatient to wait.

■ NOUN

gesture

Worse still, she longed to reach up and smooth the ruffled disorder caused by his impatient gesture .

The impatient gesture of the guard who had escorted her caught Isabel's eye.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a touch disappointed/faster/impatient etc

He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

By this time there was a queue of impatient customers waiting to be served.

Don't be so impatient . I'm working as fast as I can.

I could see that Max was getting impatient with me.

Roy gets impatient when people drive too slow in front of him.

The customs officer waved them on impatiently.

The new minister was almost immediately the object of attack by politicians and press impatient for results.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Carrie felt impatient with her - no grown-up should be so weak and so silly - but she was sorry as well.

Chances are your stomach gets knotted and you feel distracted, restless, impatient .

He felt offended that she couldn't say yes and impatient with her hesitation, blaming Katherine for his own confusion.

He must be impatient to get back home.

I was impatient , I wished he would move faster before a guard saw him.

She determined not to become impatient .

She was impatient , angry, and scientific.

There was something deceitful and impatient about the smiling look in his eyes.

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