Definition of Impatient

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Impatient

Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under.

Not to be borne; unendurable.

Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies.

One who is impatient.

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Impatient Quotations

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Buddha

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
George Carlin

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!
Roger Bannister

Old people are often impatient, but for what?
Jonathan Carroll

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
Gene Tierney

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
Loretta Young

Impatient Translations

impatient in French is impamtiemment
impatient in German is ungeduldig
impatient in Italian is impaziente
impatient in Spanish is impaciente

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