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# impatient

«impatient» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not able to wait calmly; easily annoyed when things take…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (impatient, more impatient, most impatient)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not able to wait calmly; easily annoyed when things take time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#m1)

2) Very eager to do something soon: impatient to start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#m2)

3) Impatient with someone means easily annoyed by them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows a character's feelings; in everyday life queues, waiting for presents, slow computers. Phrases: impatient to, impatient with, grow impatient.

### examples

- The children were impatient for the holidays to start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#x1)
- Don't be impatient, your turn will come. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#x2)
- The driver grew impatient in the traffic jam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#x3)
- He was impatient with his little brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#x4)
- I'm impatient to open my presents! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#x5)
- The impatient customer tapped her foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#x6)
- "Don't be so impatient," said Snow-White. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/#x7)

### note

Opposite: patient. Noun: impatience. Adverb: impatiently. Trap: patient is also a noun (someone seen by a doctor), but impatient is only an adjective.

### In the corpora

- [A bot never gets impatient with repeated explanations, but you should still tell your teacher what you found hard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/19/)
- [im- is used before many words starting with m or p: impossible, immature, impatient.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/15/)
- [Or why should I not be impatient?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.531/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impatient» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impatient/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.