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

  • (..) are madmen like your father. Do you know what frightens me? I said farewell to a man who loves me. A man I thought I cared for. And I felt nothing. Just impatient to get on with it. He wasn't the first to love you and he won't be the last. Well, you have completely failed to console me. (..)
    2016 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: The Winds of Winter Season: 6 Episode 10
  • (..) - Hey, baby. - Keep moving, frat boy. - Come on. Out with it. - Don't rush me. l mean... You shouldn't be impatient with the opportunity of a lifetime. l'm gonna sit down because you're so sexy? My knees are weak. Really? Dr Cox? (..)
    2001 TvShow: Scrubs Title: My Mentor Season: 1 Episode 2
  • (..) But to persevere in obstinate condolement is a course of ungodly stubbornness 'Tis unmanly grief, it shows a will most incorrect to heaven A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, an understanding simple and unschooled Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead (..)
    2015 Hamlet