patient

1. 1.

   enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance

   “a patient smile”

   “was patient with the children”

   “an exact and patient scientist”

   “please be patient”

   Antonymsimpatient

   Similardiligentenduringforbearingtolerantunhurried

Other forms of patient

plural

patients·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about patient

What does patient mean?

patient means "a person who requires medical care". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in patient?

patient has 2 syllables: pa-tient. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪʃənt/.

What is another word for patient?

Close synonyms include affected role, patient role. 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 patient?

The recorded antonyms are impatient.

Is patient a common word?

patient is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 patient?

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