impatient

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Restless, short of temper, and intolerant of delays.
    — She dances when she becomes impatient.
  2. 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; […]
  3. Not to be borne; unendurable. obsolete
    — Dismayed with so defperate deadly wound, And eke impatient of unwonted payne, He lowdly bray'd with beastly yelling sownd
  4. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.
    — impatient speeches or replies

词形变化

more impatient comparative most impatient superlative inpatient alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
impassive impatience impatiently impatientness unimpatient

词源

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