Crossword clues for impatience
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impatience \Im*pa"tience\n. [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.] The quality of being impatient; lack 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.
I then, . . .
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answered neglectingly.
--Shak.
With huge impatience he inly swelt
More for great sorrow that he could not pass,
Than for the burning torment which he felt.
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Old French impacience (Modern French impatience) and directly from Latin impatientia, from impatiens (see impatient).
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
WordNet
n. a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: restlessness]
a restless desire for change and excitement
a dislike of anything that causes delay [ant: patience]
Wikipedia
Impatience is a lack of patience.
Impatience may also refer to:
- Impatience, an album by Faye Wong, Chinese title: Fuzao
- "Impatience", a song from Brain Thrust Mastery by We Are Scientists
- "Impatience", an episode of Death Note
Usage examples of "impatience".
Josh himself apologized in profuse Aberdonian for not having been by her side to aid her, but she dismissed this with kind, if brusque, impatience.
I say no doubt for I have not seen the poor, dear man since the duel, which his impatience toward Ardea and Hafner rendered in evitable.
The hawk stood in the centre of the lofty second-storey headquarters office at Asmara, He was too consumed with furious impatience to sit at the wide desk, and when he paced the tiled floor, his heels cracked on the ceramic like drum beats.
The atmosphere, impregnated with Russian tobacco and the bluish vapor which filled the room, revealed in what manner the betrayed lover had diverted his impatience, and in the centre of the writing-table a cup with a bacchanal painted in red on a black ground, of which Julien was very proud, contained the remains of about thirty cigarettes, thrown aside almost as soon as lighted.
Jack mused over memories of other days, his anxiety to know what was wrong at Brindisi grew moment by moment, and the flying express seemed to crawl, so great was his impatience to be in London, where he expected to get further news from Mr.
Barenna, who made this remark, heaved a sigh and sat back in her canework chair with that jerkiness of action which in elderly ladies usually betokens impatience with the ways of young people.
Di Cavallo continued to stare, but there was now more impatience than suspicion in his face.
She pulled out her map and studied the area around Chantilly carefully, to take her mind off her impatience.
Powerful chants honor the history of Her wrath, impatience, violence, and Her force in shaping the land.
From the time that he had left the shrine governed by Chon Look, Hugo Urvin had displayed a marked impatience that he had been unable to conceal!
Yet Galba Brassidias forgave his own impatience as he forgave his own ambition.
She strolled back and forth before the four gates for a minute, amusement turning to annoyance with her own impatience.
He shifted from one booted foot to the other with noticeable impatience, his glittery green eyes sweeping the customers nearest the counter.
She would send Greger into town to wire a warning to Ryan, but she chaffed with impatience.
The impatience and idleness of the barbarians could ill brook the slow labors of agriculture.