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Impatient
IMPA'TIENT, a. [L. impatiens.] Uneasy or fretful under suffering; not bearing pain with composure; not enduring evil without fretfulness,uneasiness, and a desire or effort to get rid of the evil. Young men are impatient of restraint. We are all apt to be impatient under wrongs; but it is a christian duty not to be impatient in sickness, or under any afflictive dispensation of Providence.
1. Not suffering quietly; not enduring.
Fame, impatient of extremes, decays
Not more by envy than excess of praise.
2. Hasty; eager; not enduring delay. The impatient man will not wait for information; he often acts with precipitance. Be not impatient for the return of spring.
3. Not to be borne; as impatient smart.
This word is followed by of, at, for, or under. We are impatient of restraint, or of wrongs; impatient at the delay of expected good; impatient for the return of a friend, or for the arrival of the mail; impatient under evils of any kind. The proper use of these particles can be learnt only by practice or observation.
IMPA'TIENT, n. One who is restless under suffering.
impatient appears in definitions for these words:
Eel Equally Excessively Hot Impatience Impatient Impatiently In Strange Throb Weary Wince
Eel Equally Excessively Hot Impatience Impatient Impatiently In Strange Throb Weary Wince
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