impatience

impatience /im'peiʃəns/ (impatientness) /im'peiʃəntnis/
  • danh từ
    • sự thiếu kiên nhẫn, sự không kiên tâm; tính nóng vội, tính nôn nóng; tính hay sốt ruột
      • unable to restrain one's impatience: không kìm được sự nôn nóng
      • his impatience to set out: sự nóng lòng muốn ra đi của hắn ta
    • (+ of) sự không chịu đựng được, sự không dung thứ được, sự khó chịu (cái gì)
      • his impatience of delay: sự khó chịu của anh đối với việc chậm trễ

Xem thêm: restlessness



impatience

Từ điển Collocation

impatience noun

ADJ. growing, mounting | slight | barely concealed/controlled

QUANT. hint, note, touch

VERB + IMPATIENCE feel She felt a growing impatience. | express, show He was trying hard not to show his impatience. | contain, control, curb, restrain unable to contain her impatience | conceal, hide

IMPATIENCE + VERB grow

PREP. with ~ He stamped his feet as he waited with barely concealed impatience for the telephone. | ~ at He expressed impatience at the slow rate of progress. | ~ for his impatience for her to return | ~ with impatience with the slowness of change

PHRASES a gesture of impatience He shook his head in a gesture of impatience. | a sigh of impatience He bit back a sigh of impatience. | signs of impatience The children were beginning to show signs of impatience.

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay; restlessness
  • a restless desire for change and excitement
  • a dislike of anything that causes delay

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


ant.: patience