The audience showed their impatience by stamping of feet.
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Impatience
//ɪmˈpeɪʃəns//
Synonyms for "impatience" (53 found)
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Closest matches (11)
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Related words (26)
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8 entriesAntonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescapable of
1 entriescauses
1 entriescauses desire
2 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 36 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَفَاد صَبْر noun (quality of being impatient)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- səbrsizlik noun (quality of being impatient)
Belarusian
1 entries- нецярплі́васць noun (quality of being impatient)
Bulgarian
1 entries- нетърпеливост noun (quality of being impatient)
Catalan
1 entries- impaciència noun (quality of being impatient)
Cebuano
1 entries- kalaay noun (quality of being impatient)
Czech
1 entries- netrpělivost noun (quality of being impatient)
Danish
1 entries- utålmodighed noun (quality of being impatient)
Dutch
1 entries- ongeduld noun (quality of being impatient)
Esperanto
1 entries- malpacienco noun (quality of being impatient)
Finnish
2 entries- kärsimättömyys noun (quality of being impatient)
- malttamattomuus noun (quality of being impatient)
French
1 entries- impatience noun (quality of being impatient)
Georgian
1 entries- მოუთმენლობა noun (quality of being impatient)
German
1 entries- Ungeduld noun (quality of being impatient)
Greek
1 entries- ανυπομονησία noun (quality of being impatient)
Hindi
2 entries- अधीरता noun (quality of being impatient)
- उतावलापन noun (quality of being impatient)
Hungarian
1 entries- türelmetlenség noun (quality of being impatient)
Icelandic
1 entries- óþolinmæði noun (quality of being impatient)
Italian
1 entries- impazienza noun (quality of being impatient)
Japanese
2 entries- 焦り noun (quality of being impatient)
- 焦燥 noun (quality of being impatient)
Ladino
1 entries- impasiencia noun (quality of being impatient)
Latin
2 entries- aviditās noun (quality of being impatient)
- impatientia noun (quality of being impatient)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Ongedold noun (quality of being impatient)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- utålmodighet noun (quality of being impatient)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- utolmod noun (quality of being impatient)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Onjedult noun (quality of being impatient)
Polish
2 entries- brak cierpliwości noun (quality of being impatient)
- niecierpliwość noun (quality of being impatient)
Portuguese
1 entries- impaciência noun (quality of being impatient)
Romanian
2 entries- impaciență noun (quality of being impatient)
- nerăbdare noun (quality of being impatient)
Russian
1 entries- нетерпе́ние noun (quality of being impatient)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अक्षान्ति noun (quality of being impatient)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nestrpljénje noun (quality of being impatient)
- nestr̀pljivōst noun (quality of being impatient)
Spanish
1 entries- impaciencia noun (quality of being impatient)
Swedish
1 entries- otålighet noun (quality of being impatient)
Tagalog
1 entries- inip noun (quality of being impatient)
Ukrainian
1 entries- нетерпі́ння noun (quality of being impatient)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
He made a gesture of impatience.
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You have to deal with impatience!
Source: tatoeba (884434)
Infinite patience and infinite impatience: one of these two expressions makes sense and the other doesn't.
Source: tatoeba (1808433)
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