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Pronunciation / Transliteration: impatient
"Elle est impatiente de voir ses amis."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
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Restless or eager; easily annoyed by someone's mistakes or because you have to wait.
"He was impatient for the game to start."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Late Middle English: from Old French impotent or Latin impatient-, from in- 'not' + patient- 'suffering, enduring' (from pati 'suffer').
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Impatient" is said worldwide
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impatient
Transliteration: impatient
"Elle est impatiente de voir ses amis."
ungeduldig
Transliteration: ungeduldig
"Die Kinder waren sehr ungeduldig."
impaziente
Transliteration: impaziente
"Non essere così impaziente!"
impaciente
Transliteration: impaciente
"Estaba impaciente por recibir una respuesta."
impaciente
Transliteration: impaciente
"Ele é muito impaciente no trânsito."
अधैर्य
Transliteration: adhairya
"वह परिणाम के लिए अधैर्य था।"
急躁
Transliteration: jízào
"请不要对结果感到急躁。"
성급한
Transliteration: seong-geup-han
"그는 성급하게 결정을 내렸다."
せっかち
Transliteration: sekkachi
"彼は待つのが嫌いで、とてもせっかちだ。"
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