impatient
adjective
im·pa·tient
(ˌ)im-ˈpā-shənt 
1
a
: not patient : restless or short of temper especially under irritation, delay, or opposition
b
: intolerant sense 1
impatient of delay
2
: prompted or marked by impatience
an impatient reply
3
: eagerly desirous : anxious
impatient to get home
impatiently
adverb
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Examples of impatient in a Sentence
After months of delays, customers are becoming impatient.
Customers have grown impatient with the repeated delays.
“Aren't you ready yet?” “Don't be so impatient. There's no need to hurry.”
She was impatient to leave.
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But investors have since grown impatient for concrete details.
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Yue Wang, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
That plot, with a fee of $300,000, was also monitored by the FBI, which captured weeks of communication between a go-between and an increasingly impatient handler in Tehran.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
Too impatient to get dressed, my mother opened an umbrella and left the house in her nightclothes.
—Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
Simply put, manufacturers are getting impatient for tangible results, and some of the excitement that once existed about AI’s disruptive potential is now veiled by performance issues, slow adoption rates and pushed project timelines.
—Bill Rokos, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Yue Wang, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
That plot, with a fee of $300,000, was also monitored by the FBI, which captured weeks of communication between a go-between and an increasingly impatient handler in Tehran.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
Too impatient to get dressed, my mother opened an umbrella and left the house in her nightclothes.
—Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
Simply put, manufacturers are getting impatient for tangible results, and some of the excitement that once existed about AI’s disruptive potential is now veiled by performance issues, slow adoption rates and pushed project timelines.
—Bill Rokos, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Impatient.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impatient. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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impatient
adjective
im·pa·tient
(ˈ)im-ˈpā-shənt
1
: not patient
an impatient disposition
2
: showing or coming from impatience
an impatient answer
3
: restless and eager
impatient to get going
impatiently
adverb
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