impatient
IPA: ɪmpˈeɪʃʌnt
adjective
- Restless and intolerant of delays.
- Anxious and eager, especially to begin or have something.
- (obsolete) Not to be borne; unendurable.
- Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.
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Examples of "impatient" in Sentences
- I'm also terribly impatient, which is not a good mindset for an editor.
- With his head to one side, and smoking his cigar in short, impatient draughts, he listened.
- But the next minute, the little creature whimpering, she bent down in impatient repentance and kissed it, whimpering too.
- Those that get impatient from the long wait simply pin a note to the front of children’s pockets and leave them in line alone.
- I know you too well; but I want to hear what you have been doing -- what he said, 'answered Charles, in short, impatient sentences.
- Indeed by this time the whole party were gathered, and in impatient expectation that the dinner would make up to them in some degree for the various disappointments of the morning.
- Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames.
- Thus earnestly does a gracious soul desire communion with God, thus impatient is it in the want of that communion, so impossible does it find it to be satisfied with any thing short of that communion, and so insatiable is it in taking the pleasures of that communion when the opportunity of it returns, still thirsting after the full enjoyment of him in the heavenly kingdom.
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