impatient

See also: împâtient and inpatient

English

Etymology

From Old French impacient (modern French impatient), from Latin impatiens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeɪʃənt/
• Hyphenation: im‧pa‧tient

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

impatient (comparative more impatient, superlative most impatient)

1. Restless and intolerant of delays.
   • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him.

2. Anxious and eager, especially to begin something.
3. (obsolete) Not to be borne; unendurable.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

4. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.

   impatient speeches or replies

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III. ii. 287:

     What, will you tear / Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?

Derived terms

• impatiently
• impatience
• impassive

Translations

restless and intolerant of delays

• Armenian: անհամբեր (hy) (anhamber)
• Belarusian: нецярплі́вы m (njecjarplívy)
• Bulgarian: нетърпелив (bg) (netǎrpeliv)
• Catalan: impacient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不耐煩／不耐烦 (zh) (bùnàifán), 不耐烦 (zh) (bù nàifán), 浮躁 (zh) (fúzào)

• Czech: netrpělivý m
• Danish: utålmodig (da)
• Dutch: ongeduldig (nl)
• Esperanto: malpacienca, senpacienca
• Finnish: kärsimätön (fi)
• French: impatient (fr) m, impatiente (fr) f
• German: ungeduldig (de)
• Greek: ανυπόμονος (el) (anypómonos)
• Hungarian: türelmetlen (hu)
• Icelandic: óþolinmóður (is)
• Luxembourgish: ongedëlleg
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• Latin: impatiens
• Maori: takahē (mi), hīkaikai, kiriweti, pōāritarita
• Navajo: doo bibaʼ da
• Norman: împâtient (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utålmodig (no)

  Nynorsk: utolmodig

• Polish: niecierpliwy (pl) m
• Portuguese: impaciente (pt)
• Russian: нетерпели́вый (ru) m (neterpelívyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-fhoighidneach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нестр̀пљив

  Roman: nestr̀pljiv (sh)

• Spanish: impaciente (es)
• Swedish: otålig (sv), utan tålamod
• Ukrainian: нетерпля́чий (neterpljáčyj)

anxious and eager

• Armenian: անհամբեր (hy) (anhamber)
• Bulgarian: неспокоен (bg) (nespokoen), в очакване (v očakvane)
• Catalan: impacient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 心急 (sam¹ gap¹)

  Mandarin: 急躁 (zh) (jízào), 焦急 (zh) (jiāojí)

• Dutch: ongeduldig (nl)
• Finnish: kärsimätön (fi)
• French: impatient (fr)
• Greek: ανυπόμονος (el) (anypómonos)
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• Maori: takahē (mi), pōtatutatu, takawawe
• Norman: împâtient (Jersey)
• Polish: niecierpliwy (pl) m
• Portuguese: ansioso (pt)
• Russian: нетерпели́вый (ru) (neterpelívyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нестр̀пљив

  Roman: nestr̀pljiv (sh)

• Spanish: impaciente (es)
• Swedish: ivrig (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} netrpezlivý
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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

impatient (feminine impatiente, masculine plural impatients, feminine plural impatientes)

1. impatient

Noun

impatient m (plural impatients)

1. impatient person

Further reading

• “impatient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.