Definitions for impatient

impatient im·pa·tient

Spelling: [im-pey-shuh nt]
IPA: /ɪmˈpeɪ ʃənt/

Impatient is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in impatient (aeiimnptt).

Definitions for impatient

adjective

  1. not patient; not accepting delay, opposition, pain, etc., with calm or patience.
  2. indicating lack of patience:
  3. restless in desire or expectation; eagerly desirous.

Idioms

  1. impatient of, intolerant of:

Origin of impatient

1350-1400; Middle English impacient Latin impatient- (stem of impatiēns) not enduring, not tolerating. See im-2, Examples for impatient

Along with a cadre of other young, outspoken LGBT-rights activists in Yaoundé and Douala, Lembembe was impatient for change.

I am impatient to write to your sister Tollemache this good news.

It had such encouraging reports of his business that he was impatient to get back to it.

But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation.

She was impatient at the slightest delay, and only half answered his questions.

When impatient or tired, as he often is in his wheelchair, he stims: tapping his head, biting his arm, rocking.

Then I grew so sleepy, that I was impatient to be shown to my bed.

On AboveTopSecret, Syrian Sister was impatient for his execution.

Yes, a Plan B, one that places more stock in patient strategy as opposed to impatient action.

Even in my benevolence I was as impatient and unreasonable as a child.

Word Value for impatient
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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