impatient
adjective
not patient; not accepting delay, opposition, pain, etc., with calm or patience.
unimpatient
-
a word derived from
impatient.
Example Sentences
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He stood there beside the gaunt rabbit of a mule, the two of them shabby and motionless and unimpatient.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Mrs. Hay was watching over her sleeping husband, whose slow recovery Flint was noting with unimpatient eye.
From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Edwin Willard Deming
Presently, with a suave and unimpatient gesture, he took his ticket away from the peering woman and read her the number.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
