impatient
If you are impatient, you don’t like to wait. Do you have a hard time teaching children new skills? Do you grab the shoe and tie it yourself? You’re impatient.
Pent-up, antsy, restless, short-tempered, constantly checking the time — these are qualities and behaviors of an impatient person. Patient comes from the Latin word patientem, meaning "to endure," but add the prefix im-, and you get impatient — the inability to endure delays, mix-ups, people walking slowly, red lights...
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restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition“impatient with the slower students”“impatient of criticism”synonyms:agitatedtroubled emotionally and usually deeplyrestiveimpatient especially under restriction or delayunforbearingunwilling to endureantonyms:patientenduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such enduranceuncomplainingnot complainingforbearing, longanimousshowing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentmentunhurriedcapable of accepting delay with equanimitytolerantshowing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others
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(usually followed by 'to') full of eagerness
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In preparation for the AP English Literature and Composition exam, learn the vocabulary from these similes -- taken from popular AP novels. A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, using "like" or "as."
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