adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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The children grumble and fidget, getting more and more impatient .
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Some were more impatient than others.
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In contact with other women the separatist becomes more and more impatient with women who to them seem stubbornly bogged down in male values.
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He is also becoming more impatient with his traditionally inferior status.
so
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Give it time, I know you, you're so impatient .
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This goes some way to explaining why the Republicans are so impatient to get back into the White House.
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That he satisfied so impatient and fastidious a monarch for so long says much for his efficiency and sensitivity.
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When she was alive, she did not seem so impatient .
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You are always so impatient , my dear boy.
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I hated myself for being so impatient .
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He had reached Buffalo at about five-thirty and was so impatient to see the Falls that he set off immediately after breakfast.
too
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He was too free with his strictures, and too impatient with restraint.
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She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing.
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But, as I'd hoped, it was too impatient .
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Lott, only a junior, was too impatient to wait.
■ NOUN
gesture
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Worse still, she longed to reach up and smooth the ruffled disorder caused by his impatient gesture .
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The impatient gesture of the guard who had escorted her caught Isabel's eye.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a touch disappointed/faster/impatient etc
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He was fond of the man who fretted beside him, and a touch impatient with him too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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By this time there was a queue of impatient customers waiting to be served.
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Don't be so impatient . I'm working as fast as I can.
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I could see that Max was getting impatient with me.
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Roy gets impatient when people drive too slow in front of him.
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The customs officer waved them on impatiently.
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The new minister was almost immediately the object of attack by politicians and press impatient for results.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carrie felt impatient with her - no grown-up should be so weak and so silly - but she was sorry as well.
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Chances are your stomach gets knotted and you feel distracted, restless, impatient .
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He felt offended that she couldn't say yes and impatient with her hesitation, blaming Katherine for his own confusion.
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He must be impatient to get back home.
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I was impatient , I wished he would move faster before a guard saw him.
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She determined not to become impatient .
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She was impatient , angry, and scientific.
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There was something deceitful and impatient about the smiling look in his eyes.