Impatient

Definitions: Impatient

Impatient

Adjective

1. Restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism".

2. (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness; "impatient to begin"; "raring to go".

Date "impatient" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
IMPS	German	Impatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Impatient

Synonyms: impatient(p) (adj), raring(p) (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: patient (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.
Disobedience	Adjective: disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible; restiff, restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant; (refuse); recalcitrant; resisting; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous.
Excitability	Verb: be impatient; Adjective: not be able to bear; bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew; Noun: be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.
	Adjective: excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state; high-strung; irritable; (irascible); impatient, intolerant.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Impatient

English words defined with "impatient": eager ♦ impatient of, impatiently ♦ motility, motion, move, movement ♦ restive ♦ side-glance, side-look, slap ♦ To be on edge ♦ Unpatient ♦ with impatience. (references)

Specialty definitions using "impatient": Achitophel ♦ SPLash! ♦ Version 7. (references)

Etymologies containing "impatient": Unpatient. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Impatient" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (agog, anxious, hasty, impatient, restless).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You're an impatient generation. (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt) I'm impatient with stupidity. (The Day the Earth Stood Still; writing credit: Harry Bates; Edmund H. North) Yeah, and I'm impatient, do you wanna leave a message for somebody? (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) Young people get impatient with old people. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham)
Lyrics	I grow impatient for a love to call my own ("You Can't Hurry Love"; performing artist: Phil Collins)
Movie/TV Titles	The Impatient Heart (1971) Impatient Maiden (1932) The Impatient Patient (1925)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Impatient Pamela Calls 9-1-1 (reference) Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Impatient (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Cecilia Bartoli - The Impatient Lover (Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Haydn) (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Impatient knock on a door.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Denham	Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Francis Bacon	Impatient people are like the bees; they kill themselves in stinging others.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	These were the more impatient who left it and ran forward.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He was impatient of their voices and could not keep his feet at rest.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Vicious and cruel and impatient, like a frantic child, and the whole structure overlaid with amusement.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Indonesia	Local communities, impatient for the benefits of decentralization, have sought to obtain extra-contractual concessions from companies operating in their areas. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	The American people deserve to be impatient because we do not yet have the public house in order.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Impatient" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.01% of the time. "Impatient" is used about 606 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.01%	600	10,659
Noun (singular)	0.99%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	606	N/A

Expressions using "impatient": become impatient ♦ don't be impatient ♦ get impatient ♦ grow impatient ♦ impatient of. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "impatient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		ongeduldig. (various references)

Albanian		i paduruar (eager, edgy, on edge, solicitous), në ankth. (various references)

Arabic		‏نافذ الصبر, ‏قليل الصبر, ‏قليل الإحتمال (intolerant), ‏ضيق الصدر (pique, restless), ‏جزع (anxiety, craze, despondency, despondent, grain, solicitous, vein), ‏برم (bore, boredom, lay, querulous, tire, twirl, worry). (various references)

Bulgarian		който силно желае (keen), който силно жадува, който гори от нетърпение, който очаква с нетърпение, който не може да се търпи, който не може да се понася, нетърпелив (eager). (various references)

Chinese		躁 (hot-tempered), 燥 (dry, parched), 悁 (angry, sad), 不耐烦 (Bored, Boring), 不耐煩 (impatience). (various references)

Czech		netrpìlivý (eager, restless), nedoèkavý (eager). (various references)

Danish		utålmodig. (various references)

Dutch		ongeduldig, duldeloos. (various references)

Farsi		ناشکیبا, بی حوصله , بی تاب , بی صبر, بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Dissolute, Immoral, Licentious, Moody, Rabid, Rake, Reprobate, Vile). (various references)

Finnish		malttamaton (hasty), maltiton, kärsimätön, hätäinen (anxious, hasty, hurried). (various references)

French		intolérant, impatient. (various references)

German		ungeduldig (anxiously, eagerly, impatiently, petulant, short-temperedly). (various references)

Greek		φουριόζοσ (slap dash, slapdash), ανυπόμονοσ (agog, anxious, eager). (various references)

Hebrew		קצר רוח (irascible, quick tempered, short, snappish). (various references)

Hungarian		türelmetlen (eager, fidgety, have the needles, he wants patience, intolerant, restive, short, to be all of a sweat, to be in a sweat, to want patience). (various references)

Icelandic		óþolinmóður. (various references)

Indonesian		tak sabar (impetuous). (various references)

Italian		impaziente (agog, eager, petulant, snorty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		焦れったい (irritating, vexing), 気短 (quick-tempered, short-tempered), 気早 (quick-tempered), 歯�'い (chagrined, tantalized, vexed), 歯がゆい (irritated), せざる�'得ない (cannot avoid doing, has to do, hasty, instead of, is compelled to do, to cheat someone out of, to wangle, without), もし可能ならば (all the way, awfully, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, dishevelled, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, fidget, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hazy, hesitantly, if possible, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, tardy, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, tousled, unkempt, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きばや (quick-tempered), きみじか (quick-tempered, short-tempered), せっかち (hasty), やきもき (worry about), じれったい (irritating, vexing), はがゆい (chagrined, irritated, tantalized, vexed). (various references)

Korean		성급한 (impetuous). (various references)

Manx		raghtal (impetuous, obstinate, rash, stubborn, violent), neuvurriagh, neuhurransagh (chronic, insufferable, intolerable, unbearable, unendurable, unforbearing), neuhurrallagh (intolerable, unendurable), meehurransagh. (various references)

Norwegian		utålmodig. (various references)

Pig Latin		impatientay.(various references)

Portuguese		intolerante (bigot, intonate), impaciente (agog, eagerness, fiduciary, forward, grumble, quick, rampant, restive), descontente (acidulated, disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled be, dissatisfactory, malcontent, snuffy, sorehead, unsatisfied), aversão (abhorrence, aversion, complex, despite, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disrelish, distaste, grudge, hate, hatred, hors d'oeuvre, loathing, rancor, rancour, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt). (various references)

Romanian		nervos (fidgety, fussy, hysterical, ill natured, impatiently, irritably, irritated, jumpy, nervous, nervously, nervy, neurotic, overwrought, sinewy), nerãbdãtor (agog, anxious, eager, greedy, impatiently, petulant, solicitous), neîngãduitor. (various references)

Russian		нетерпеливый (eager). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nestrpljiv (aggressive, agog). (various references)

Spanish		impaciente (eager, fretful, hasty). (various references)

Swedish		otålig (edgy, fretting, restive). (various references)

Turkish		tez canlı (fast, impetuous, restless, sharp, swift), tahammülsüz, sabırsız (agog, eager, on edge, rash, restive, solicitous), hoşgörüsüz (adamant, austere, exacting, illiberal, intolerant, strict, uncomplaisant), aceleci (brash, hasty, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, hustler, impetuous, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash, slippy). (various references)

Turkmen		зydamsyz (intolerant). (various references)

Ukranian		нетерплячий (eager, intolerant, snorty), нетерпимий (bigotted, illiberal, intolerant), дратівливий (bilious, capernoited, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, exasperating, fretful, grumpy, hoity toity, irascible, irritable, petulant, short tempered, spleenful, tetchy, warm). (various references)

Vietnamese		thiếu kiên nhẫn, nóng vội, không kiên tâm, không dung thứ được. (various references)

Welsh		diamynedd, anoddefgar (intolerant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inpatiens, inquiete, inquieti, inquietum, intolerabilis, turbidam, turbido. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "impatient": impatiently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Impatient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impacient, impasient, impatiant, impatien, impatients, impatint, imperatii, impetent, impitent, imputint, inationto, inpacient. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "impatient" (pronounced i'mpā"shunt)
6	-p ā" sh u n t	patient.
5	-ā" sh u n t	abortifacient.
4	-sh u n t	beneficent, coefficient, deficient, efficient, inefficient, inpatient, insufficient, omniscient, outpatient, proficient, quotient, sufficient.
3	-u n t	abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-m-n-p-t-t"
	-1 letter: intimate.
	-2 letters: imitate, impaint, intimae, patient, timpani.
	-3 letters: etamin, inmate, intima, intime, mattin, mitten, pantie, patent, patine, patten, pattie, pineta, pinite, pitman, pitmen, tamein, tiepin, titian, titman, titmen.
	-4 letters: ament, amine, anime, animi, entia, imine, inapt, inept, matin, matte, meant, menta, minae, paint, paten, patin, petit, petti, pieta, pinta, taint, tempi, tempt, tenia, tinea, titan.
	-5 letters: amen, amie, amin, ante, anti, emit, etna, impi, inia, inti, item, main, mane, mate, matt, mean, meat, meta, mien, mina, mine, mini, mint, mite, mitt, name, nape, neap, neat, nema, nett, nipa, nite, pain, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pein, pent, pian, pima, pina, pine, pint, pita, tain, tame, tamp, tape, tate, team, teat, temp, tent, tepa, time, tine, tint, tipi, titi.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-m-n-p-t-t"
	+2 letters: impatiently, impetrating, impetration.
	+3 letters: antinepotism, impetrations, pigmentation, pneumaticity, preadmitting.
	+4 letters: amitriptyline, antinepotisms, pigmentations, premeditating, premeditation, reimportation, supermilitant, temporization.
	+5 letters: amitriptylines, depigmentation, disappointment, implementation, multipotential, pneumaticities, premeditations, pretermination, reimplantation, reimportations, temporizations.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6D 70 61 74 69 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.. -- .--. .- - .. . -. -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101101 01110000 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#109 &#112 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 0070 0061 0074 0069 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
flower impatient	18
impatient	11
impatient plant	7
beginner impatient	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Impatient

Definitions: Impatient

Impatient

Adjective

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Impatient

Synonyms: Impatient

Synonyms within Context: Impatient

Desire

Disobedience

Excitability

Crosswords: Impatient

Modern Usage: Impatient

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Image Slideshow: Impatient

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Sounds Captioned with "Impatient".

Familiar Quotations: Impatient

Denham

Francis Bacon

Use in Literature: Impatient

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Impatient

Economic History

Indonesia

Speeches: Impatient

Ronald Reagan

Usage Frequency: Impatient

Expressions: Impatient

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Impatient

flower impatient

impatient

impatient plant

beginner impatient

Modern Translations: Impatient

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