impatient

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" Finally she got impatient and asked, "What's Code 5?

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Quick take

restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

adjective

(usually followed by `to') full of eagerness; "impatient to begin"; "raring to go"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for impatient.

adjective

restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

adjective

(usually followed by `to') full of eagerness; "impatient to begin"; "raring to go"

Example sentences

" Finally she got impatient and asked, "What's Code 5?

Time is an important factor, don't be impatient, and focus again on yourself for a while.

"We're ADD, broke, impatient, and really, really lazy, and because we're your customers you do what we say or we pirate your shit.

That may seem impatient, a snap judgment, arbitrary and irrational.

Also, since some of them were paid extras, they might just be getting impatient by the end, and rushing through at what would normally be an uncomfortable pace.

Mark Zuckerberg knew all about how impatient public-market shareholders are.

When, after two years of testing, Armstrong grew impatient, RCA began to use its power with the government to stall FM radios deployment generally.

Lutz does a great job of hand-holding in the beginning, which can be critical for the solo learner out there, but I wouldn't be the first who started getting impatient half-way through.

>an impatient _software engineer_ comes along and claims to have [succeeded with a] task that specialists have so far failed atThe guy who invented the spreadsheet didn't have to absorb all available accounting literature first, and Elon Musk didn't spend 30 years in the Apollo program before being allowed to send his own rocket to space.

Over the years, amendments have given us some very fundamental changes: the abolition of slavery, the right of women to vote, presidential term limits, etc. Granted, it's a slow process that the author may be impatient with, but it's probably preferable to having a government that can arbitrarily dispose of people's rights.