impatient

Questions about impatient

What does impatient mean?

impatient means "restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impatient?

impatient has 3 syllables: im-pa-tient. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpeɪʃənt/.

What is another word for impatient?

Close synonyms include raring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of impatient?

The recorded antonyms are patient.

Is impatient a common word?

impatient is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with impatient?

3 words rhyme with impatient. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.