adjective. Unable to wait patiently or tolerate delay; restless.

adjective. Unable to endure irritation or opposition; intolerant.

adjective. Expressing or produced by impatience.

adjective. Restively eager or desirous; anxious.

Not patient; not bearing or enduring with composure or patience; uneasy under existing conditions, and eager for relief or change; excited by opposition or the thwarting of one's desires; quick-tempered.

Intolerant; non-endurant; resistant: as, impatient of control.

Prompted by or springing from impatience; exhibiting or expressing impatience: as, an impatient manner.

Not to be borne; intolerable.

Synonyms and Restless, unquiet, hasty, eager, precipitate, impetuous, vehement.

noun. One who lacks patience.

noun. One who is impatient.

adjective. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under.

adjective. Not to be borne; unendurable.

adjective. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.

adjective. restless and intolerant of delays

adjective. anxious and eager, especially to begin something

adjective. (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness

adjective. restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition

"Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames."

eager  restive  unforbearing  

impatiently  

abortifacient  patient  

angry  bitter  eager  gentle  indignant  

abrupt  agitated  agog  alacritous  all agog