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patiently

Syllables: pa·tient·ly/ˈpeɪʃəntli/

patiently adverb: in a patient manner.

Adverb

patiently (comparative more patiently, superlative most patiently)

  1. In a patient manner.
    • "I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    • Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle...2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36

patiently meaning in Bengali

patiently in Bengali

ধৈর্য ধরে, সহিষ্ণুভাবে

Examples of patiently in a sentence

  • They explained patiently but firmly that he wasn't to play with his ding-a-ling nor try to show it to anyone.
  • Here's the section women have been patiently waiting for after trudging through a swamp of quasisexist discussion.
  • She waited patiently as the group members tried to outfumble one another in paying for the drinks.

All 40 example sentences with patiently

Antonyms of patiently

Forms of patiently

comparativemore patiently
superlativemost patiently
alternative form (archaic)paciently

Origin of patiently

From patient + -ly.

Questions about patiently

What does patiently mean?
Patiently means in a patient manner.
What is patiently in Bengali?
Patiently in Bengali is ধৈর্য ধরে, সহিষ্ণুভাবে. See Patiently meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is patiently?
Patiently is an adverb.
How do you pronounce patiently?
Patiently is pronounced /ˈpeɪʃəntli/.

Words near patiently in the dictionary

  1. patienthoods
  2. patientive
  3. patientives
  4. patientless
  5. patientlike
  6. patiently
  7. patientness
  8. patients
  9. patients under investigation
  10. patients zero
  11. patientspeak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patiently (page history and authors); Patiently (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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