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unpatiently

unpatiently is the obsolete form of impatiently.

Meaning of impatiently

Adverb

impatiently (comparative more impatiently, superlative most impatiently)

  1. In an impatient manner.
    • Stella was waiting impatiently for the delivery to come.

Forms of unpatiently

comparativemore unpatiently
superlativemost unpatiently

Origin of unpatiently

From unpatient + -ly.

Questions about unpatiently

What is unpatiently the obsolete form of?
Unpatiently is the obsolete form of impatiently.

Words near unpatiently in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpatiently (page history and authors); impatiently (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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