impatient

Definition

  • adjective: not willing to wait for something or someone
  • adjective: not patient
  • often + 'for'
  • synonyms: uneasy, passionate, fretful

Examples

  • “Aren't you ready yet?” “Don't be so 'impatient'. There's no need to hurry.”

  • She was becoming more 'impatient for' the opportunity to begin working.

  • After months of delays, customers are becoming/growing 'impatient'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) stick in my throat. Because you're reading it too fsst. - Not at all. - You have to read Kipling slowly. The eye is too impatient. Think about the speed of his pen. What is it? ''He sat, comma ''in defiance of municipal orders, comma ''sstride the gun amzammah... on her brick...'' What is it? (..)
    1996 The English Patient