pacient

Adjective

patient (comparative more patient, superlative most patient)

1. Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
   • Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.

   Synonyms:

   composed, forbearing

   Antonyms:

   antsy, impatient

2. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
   • patient endeavour

   Synonyms:

   determined, sedulous, steady

3. (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
   • To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.1661, John Fell, “Doctor Henry Hammond”, in Christopher Wordsworth, editor, Ecclesiastical Biography, volume 5, published 1810, page 380

   Synonyms:

   sufferable, resistant, tolerant

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