impatient

Definition

Examples

Customers became impatient when the line at the counter moved slowly.

Word Family

Synonyms

• restlessworried and uneasy
• eagera high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
• intolerantunwilling to tolerate difference of opinion

Collocations

• Easy impatient waiting in line
  describing impatient waiting in line (restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition)
• Medium impatient clients demanding results
  describing impatient clients demanding results (restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition)
• Hard grow impatient with bureaucratic delays
  to increase in size, quantity, or maturity regarding impatient with bureaucratic delays
• Very Hard champing at bit with impatient ambition
  to champing at bit with impatient ambition, meaning to chafe at the bit, like horses