Definition of impatient

"impatient" in the adjective sense

1. impatient

restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition

"impatient with the slower students"

"impatient of criticism"

2. impatient, raring

usually followed by `to') full of eagerness

"impatient to begin"

"raring to go"

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Quotations for impatient

Life protracted is protracted woe,
Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy,
And shuts up all the passages of joy. [ Johnson ]

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. [ Denham ]

Genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

There is no friendship between those associated in power; he who rules will always be impatient of an associate. [ Lucan ]

To be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain he must die is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The imputation of being a fool is a thing which mankind, of all others, is the most impatient of, it being a blot upon the prime and specific perfection of human nature. [ South ]

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin. [ Lowell ]

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons? [ Lamb ]

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

impatient in Scrabble®

The word impatient is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters impatient:

IMPATIENT
(126)
IMPATIENT
(126)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (5 words)

imitate, miniate, naptime, patient, timpani

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word impatient

IMPATIENT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In impatient

IMPATIENT
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impatient in Words With Friends™

The word impatient is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters impatient:

IMPATIENT
(180)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (5 words)

imitate, miniate, naptime, patient, timpani

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word impatient

IMPATIENT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In impatient

IMPATIENT
(180)
NAPTIME
(113 = 78 + 35)
TIMPANI
(113 = 78 + 35)
IMPATIENT
(108)
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(108)
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Words within the letters of impatient

2 letter words in impatient (15 words)

6 letter words in impatient (9 words)

7 letter words in impatient (5 words)

8 letter words in impatient (1 word)

9 letter words in impatient (1 word)

impatient + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence impatient

Words that start with impatient (2 words)

Words with impatient in them (1 word)

Words that end with impatient (1 word)

Word Growth involving impatient

Shorter words in impatient

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tie patient

Longer words containing impatient

impatiently