impatiently

English

Etymology

impatient +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeɪʃəntli/

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• Hyphenation: im‧pa‧tient‧ly

Adverb

impatiently (comparative more impatiently, superlative most impatiently)

1. In an impatient manner.

   Stella was waiting impatiently for the delivery to come.

   • 1848, Jacob Abbott, “Story I. Labour Lost.—Elky.”, in Rollo at Work: Or, The Way for a Boy to Learn to be Industrious‎^[1], London: James S. Hodson, page 5:

     He watched his corn impatiently for two days, and, as it did not come up, he thought he would plant it again with beans. He ought to have waited longer.

   • 1887, James H. Scott, “O, Where Is Our Bird?”, in Poems‎^[2], second edition, St. Louis: Slawson & Co., page 68:

     The keys are awaiting
     Thy magical touch,
     And the strings are impatiently mute.

   • 1946 July 1, “Sistine Ceiling[:] In Vatican chapel Michelangelo painted tremendous scenes from Bible”, in LIFE‎^[3], volume 21, number 1, Time Inc, →ISSN, page 63:

     When the work was almost completed, the Pope impatiently asked when it would be finished. Michelangelo answered, "When I shall be able".

Antonyms

• patiently

Translations

without patience

• Armenian: անհամբեր (hy) (anhamber)
• Bulgarian: нетърпеливо (bg) (netǎrpelivo)
• Catalan: impacientment (ca)
• Dutch: ongeduldig (nl)
• Esperanto: senpacience
• Finnish: kärsimättömästi (fi)
• French: impatiemment (fr)
• Galician: impacientemente
• German: ungeduldig (de)
• Greek: ανυπόμονα (el) (anypómona)
• Hungarian: türelmetlenül (hu)
• Ingrian: terppimättömäst
• Latin: impatienter
• Norman: împâtiemment
• Portuguese: impacientemente
• Romanian: cu nerăbdare
• Russian: нетерпели́во (ru) (neterpelívo)
• Serbo-Croatian: nestr̀pljivo (sh)
• Slovak: netrpezlivo
• Spanish: impacientemente
• Swedish: otåligt (sv)
• Turkish: sabırsızca (tr)
• Ukrainian: нетерпляче (uk) (neterpljače)