Impatience
[ɪm'peɪʃns] or [ɪm'peʃəns]
Definition
(noun.) a dislike of anything that causes delay.
(noun.) a restless desire for change and excitement.
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Definition
(n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.
Editor: Lucius
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Disquietude, restlessness, uneasiness.[2]. Vehemence, impetuosity, haste, eagerness, precipitation.
Editor: Paula
Examples
- My impatience to reach the church was so great that I could not remain inactive in the cottage while the clerk lit the lantern again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If she had had any doubt which was her own Jeremiah, it would have been resolved by his impatience. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- To put it bluntly, Miss Addams let her impatience get the better of her wisdom. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We were in a fever of impatience; we were dying to see the renowned cathedral! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Your words are bitter, Rebecca, said Bois-Guilbert, pacing the apartment with impatience, but I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In remarking that your friend has shown impatience, I say no such thing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Yes, ma'am,' said Bob, all impatience; for the old lady, although much agitated, spoke with the most tantalising deliberation, as old ladies often do. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We first look with impatience upon immaturity, regarding it as something to be got over as rapidly as possible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You know what I mean, and you trifle with my impatience. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Regarded from this point of view Mr Pancks's puffings expressed injury and impatience, and each of his louder snorts became a demand for payment. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Practically I find that what is called being apostolic now, is an impatience of everything in which the parson doesn't cut the principal figure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Holmes gave an exclamation of impatience. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Gradgrind,' said her husband, who had waited for the achievement of this feat with some impatience, 'allow me to present to you Mrs. Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I was badly in need of a case, and this looks, from the man's impatience, as if it were of importance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- That kind master, who could not sleep now, was waiting with impatience for day. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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