Definition of Impatiently

1. Adverb. With impatience; in an impatient manner. "He answered her impatiently"

Partainyms: Impatient
Antonyms: Patiently

Definition of Impatiently

1. adv. In an impatient manner.

Definition of Impatiently

1. Adverb. without patience ¹

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Definition of Impatiently

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impatiently

impastoed
impastos
impasture
impastured
impastures
impasturing
impatent
impatible
impatience
impatiences
impatiency
impatiens
impatient
impatient(p)
impatient of(p)
impatiently (current term)
impatronize
impatronized
impatronizes
impatronizing
impave
impaved
impaves
impavid
impavidness
impaving
impawn
impawned
impawning
impawns

Literary usage of Impatiently

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1830)
"lives, until the novice becomes initiated in the mysteries of crime, and waits impatiently for an opportunity to commence a career of wickedness. ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The legions, who, from the opposite shores of the Bosphorus, could almost distinguish the flames of the cities and villages, impatiently urged their general ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The larger cities of Assyria do not appear as self-governing unite bearing impatiently the sway of the overlord. Assyria appears almost without exception as ..."

4. The Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1909)
"Somebody took the Bible and began to demonstrate to him that he was mistaken. 'C'est égal,' he eaid, impatiently, ..."

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