impatient

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition

   impatient with the slower students

2. 2
   adj

   Restless, short of temper, and intolerant of delays.

   She dances when she becomes impatient.

3. 3
   adj

   Anxious and eager, especially to begin or have something.

   For, if (ſaid he) you throw among five Yahoos as much Food as would be ſufficient for fifty, they will, inſtead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each ſingle one impatient to have all to itſelf; […]

4. 4
   adj

   Not to be borne; unendurable.

   Dismayed with so defperate deadly wound, And eke impatient of unwonted payne, He lowdly bray'd with beastly yelling sownd

5. 5
   adj

   Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.

   impatient speeches or replies

6. 6
   adj

   (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness

Etymology

From Old French impacient (modern French impatient), from Latin impatiēns. By surface analysis, im- + patient.