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| im·pa·tient [ im páysh'nt ] |
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1. annoyed at waiting: annoyed or tending to be annoyed at being kept waiting or by being delayed
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2. eager: eager to do something immediately, and unwilling to wait
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3. easily annoyed: unable to tolerate a particular thing and easily annoyed by it
  He was impatient of formalities.
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| [14th century. Via French< Latin impatient-, literally "not enduring" < pati "suffer"] |
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| im·pa·tience noun |
| im·pa·tient·ly adverb |
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