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unimpatient

unimpatient adjective: not impatient; patient.

Adjective

unimpatient (comparative more unimpatient, superlative most unimpatient)

  1. Not impatient; patient
    • He stood there beside the gaunt rabbit of a mule, the two of them shabby and motionless and unimpatient.1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Forms of unimpatient

comparativemore unimpatient
superlativemost unimpatient

Origin of unimpatient

From un- + impatient.

Words formed from unimpatient

Questions about unimpatient

What does unimpatient mean?
Unimpatient means not impatient; patient.
What part of speech is unimpatient?
Unimpatient is an adjective.

Words near unimpatient in the dictionary

  1. unimpassionate
  2. unimpassioned
  3. unimpassionedly
  4. unimpassionedness
  5. unimpassive
  6. unimpatient
  7. unimpatiently
  8. unimpeachability
  9. unimpeachable
  10. unimpeachableness
  11. unimpeachably

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