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1 Impatience -- rank: 1000

Impatience definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary IMPA'TIENCE, n. [L. impatientia ... by suffering positive evil, or the absence of expected good. Impatience is not rage, nor absolute inability to bear pain; but ... of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: restlessness, impatience] 2: a restless desire for change and excitement 3: a ... quality or state of being impatient Webster's 1913 Dictionary Impatience Im*pa"tiencen. [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.] The quality of being impatient; want of ... something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out ...

2 Impatient -- rank: 707

... intolerant 1 < impatient of delay > 2. prompted or marked by impatience < an impatient reply > 3. eagerly desirous ; anxious < impatient to get ... to + infin.) restlessly eager. 3 (foll. by of) intolerant. Derivatives: impatience n. impatiently adv. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L impatiens ... be borne; unendurable. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies. --Shak. Syn: Restless; uneasy; changeable ... a chance to improve the situation. ADV: ADV with v • impatience There is considerable impatience with the slow pace of political change... N-UNCOUNT 2 ... Come on, David,' Harry said impatiently. ADV: ADV with v • impatience There was a hint of impatience in his tone. ...

3 Irritate -- rank: 424

... participle of irritare Date: 1598 transitive verb 1. to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in ; annoy 2. to induce irritability in ... gradual arousing of angry feelings that may range from mere impatience to rage < constant nagging that irritated me greatly >. exasperate suggests galling annoyance and the arousing of extreme impatience < his exasperating habit of putting off needed decisions >. nettle suggests ...

4 Eagerness -- rank: 424

... Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Longing, yearning, avidity, greediness, impatience, anxiety. 2. Ardor, zeal, vehemence, impetuosity, earnestness, enthusiasm, fervor, fervency ... aptitude, aptness, ardor, assent, avidity, aye, bent, bias, blessing, breathless impatience, cast, chafing, cheerful consent, compliance, conatus, concupiscence, conduciveness, connivance, consent ... up-and-go, go, goodwill, gusto, haste, hope, horme, hunger, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, inclination, intellectual curiosity, keenness, lather, leaning, liability, libido ...

5 Restlessness -- rank: 424

... of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: restlessness, impatience] 3: a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he ... night vigil, anxiety, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, breathless impatience, brouhaha, burst, bustle, capriciousness, chafing, churn, cold comfort, commotion, consciousness ... fussiness, going, haste, heaving, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ill humor, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, inquietude, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency ...

6 Sweat -- rank: 424

... a spell of sweating 5. a state of anxiety or impatience 6. plural a. sweat suit b. sweatpants Oxford Reference Dictionary ... bide, blaze, bleed, bloom, body odor, boil, bother, botheration, breathless impatience, broil, burden, burn, burn to, burst, bustle, busy, chafe, chafing ... the ball, honest sweat, horripilation, hubbub, hullabaloo, humor, hustle, ichor, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, incandesce, industry, inquietude, itch to, jimjams, jitters, jumble ...

7 Winch -- rank: 424

... WINCH, v.i. To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness. [This is a more correct orthography than wince ... i. [See Wince.] To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Winch Winch, n. A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness. --Shelton. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Winch Winch, n ...

8 Fretting -- rank: 335

... antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxiety, anxious, attrition, attritive, bothersome, breathless, breathless impatience, buffing, burnishing, chafe, chafing, detrition, disquieting, disquietude, distressful, distressing, disturbing ... gnawing, grating, grazing, grinding, harassing, harassment, haste, hasty, hopped-up, impatience, impatient, impatientness, impetuous, impetuousness, in a lather, in a stew ...

9 Fretfulness -- rank: 335

... captiousness, irritability, ill-humor, ill-temper. Moby Thesaurus anxiety, breathless impatience, chafing, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, fretting, haste, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, lather, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, petulancy, querulousness, resentfulness, restiveness ...

10 Stew -- rank: 335

... boozehound, boozify, bordello, bother, botheration, bottle sucker, bouillabaisse, braise, breathless impatience, brew, broad spectrum, broil, brothel, brown, bum, burn, burn to ... prostitution, how-do-you-do, hubbub, huff, hullabaloo, hustler, imbroglio, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, incandesce, inquietude, itch to, jam, joint, jumble, jump ...

11 Spirit -- rank: 335

... bosom, bottom, brand, bravery, breast, breath, breath of life, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubble, bubbliness, buddhi, capersomeness, carry away, carry ... hustle, hypostasis, idea, idolum, ilk, illusion, imbue, immateriality, impact, impassionedness, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, implication, import, impress, impulse, impulse of life, inclination ...

12 Vitality -- rank: 335

... avidness, beef, being alive, birth, bite, bitingness, black power, breathless impatience, brute force, capersomeness, charge, charisma, cheerful readiness, clout, cogence, cogency ... gusto, guts, gutsiness, haleness, hardiness, hardness, having life, heartiness, immortality, impatience, impressiveness, incisiveness, influence, infrangibility, intensity, intestinal fortitude, keen desire, keenness ...

13 Sake -- rank: 335

... s or Pete's etc.) sake an expression of urgency, impatience, supplication, anger, etc. for old times' sake in memory of ... for Pete's sake in order to express annoyance or impatience, or to add force to a question or request. The ...

14 Quickness -- rank: 335

... artisanship, artistry, attention, attentiveness, avidity, avidness, bat, braininess, bravura, breathless impatience, brightness, brilliance, briskness, capability, capacity, celerity, cheerful readiness, clear thinking ... gust, gusto, handiness, haste, hastiness, horsemanship, hurriedness, hurry, immediacy, immediateness, impatience, impetuosity, impetuousness, impressionability, impulsiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, instantaneousness, intelligence, keen desire ...

15 Come -- rank: 335

... Matt. xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. ``Come, come, no time for lamentation now ... Matt. xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. ``Come, come, no time for lamentation now ...