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unpatient

unpatient adjective: impatient.

Adjective

unpatient (comparative more unpatient, superlative most unpatient)

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete) impatient
    • Forsothe he that is vnpacient, schal suffre harm; and whanne he hath rauyshid, he schal leie to anothir thing.c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III (in Middle English), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC...
    • Gond. That I hate truely, thou hadst better bin a devill.
      Orian. Why my unpatient Lord?
      Gond. Devils were once good, there they excell'd you wom[e]n.1607, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Woman Hater

Forms of unpatient

comparativemore unpatient
superlativemost unpatient

Origin of unpatient

From un- + patient.

Words formed from unpatient

Questions about unpatient

What does unpatient mean?
Unpatient means impatient.
What part of speech is unpatient?
Unpatient is an adjective.

Words near unpatient in the dictionary

  1. unpathetic
  2. unpathetically
  3. unpathologized
  4. unpathwayed
  5. unpatience
  6. unpatient
  7. unpatiently
  8. unpatientness
  9. unpatinated
  10. unpatriarchal
  11. unpatriarchial

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