restless and impatient

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• impatient — impatient, nervous, unquiet, restless, restive, uneasy, fidgety, jumpy, jittery are comparable when they mean manifesting signs of unrest or an inability to keep still or quiet. Impatient implies an inability to bear some trial (as delay,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Impatient — Im*pa tient ([i^]m*p[=a] shent), a. [OE. impacient, F. impatient, fr. L. impatiens; pref. im not + patiens patient. See {Patient}.] 1. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• restless — [[t]re̱stləs[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If you are restless, you are bored, impatient, or dissatisfied, and you want to do something else. By 1982, she was restless and needed a new impetus for her talent. ...a major new initiative to placate the country …   English dictionary

• restless — rest|less [ restləs ] adjective * 1. ) not willing or able to keep still because you are nervous, bored, or impatient: Anna was growing restless, marching up and down the platform. 2. ) not satisfied with the way you are living and wanting to… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• restless */ — UK [ˈres(t)ləs] / US adjective 1) not willing or able to keep still because you are nervous, bored, or impatient Anna was growing restless, marching up and down the platform. 2) not satisfied with the way that you are living and wanting to have… …   English dictionary

• impatient — adjective a) restless and intolerant of delays b) anxious and eager, especially to begin something …   Wiktionary

• impatient — [adj] unable, unwilling to wait abrupt, agog, antsy, anxious, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, brusque, chafing, choleric, curt, demanding, dying to*, eager, edgy, feverish, fretful, hasty, having short fuse*, headlong, hot tempered,… …   New thesaurus

• impatient — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. eager, hurried, restive, restless; anxious, uneasy, intolerant. See excitability,haste, desire. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Irritable] Syn. excitable, quick tempered, fretful; see bothered ,… …   English dictionary for students

• impatient — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, agitated, agog, alacritous, all agog, animated, antsy, antsy pantsy, anxious, athirst, avid, breathless, brusque, bursting to, chafing, curt, demanding, desirous, eager, edgy, excited, fidgety, forward, fretful …   Moby Thesaurus

• restless — Synonyms and related words: adrift, afloat, agitated, alternating, amorphous, antsy, antsy pantsy, anxious, apprehensive, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, breathless, bustling, capricious, chafing, changeable, changeful, complaining, complaintful …   Moby Thesaurus

• restless — adj 1. moving, moving about, on the move, on the go, in motion; changeable, changing, astatic, unstable, unsettled, at loose ends; migrant, migrating, migratory, nomadic, wandering, rambling, roving, roaming, Sl. rolling, traveling, itinerant,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder