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impatience 音标拼音: [ɪmp'eʃəns] n. 性急,难耐,焦急,急躁,渴望 性急,难耐,焦急,急躁,渴望 impatience n 1: a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [synonym: {restlessness}, {impatience}] 2: a restless desire for change and excitement 3: a dislike of anything that causes delay [ant: {forbearance}, {longanimity}, {patience}] Impatience \Im*pa"tience\n. [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.] The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. [1913 Webster] I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. --Shak. [1913 Webster] With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 40 Moby Thesaurus words for "impatience":
alacrity, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, avidity, avidness, breathless impatience, cheerful readiness, eagerness, elan, forwardness, gust, gusto, haste, hastiness, impetuosity, impetuousness, impulsiveness, keen desire, keenness, life, liveliness, overhastiness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, promptness, quickness, rashness, readiness, recklessness, spirit, suddenness, verve, vitality, vivacity, zest, zestfulness
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