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IMPATIENTLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

With impatience; in an impatient manner

Example:

he answered her impatiently

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

patiently (with patience; in a patient manner)

Pertainym:

impatient (restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Holmes tossed them all impatiently aside.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One Eye moved impatiently beside her; her unrest came back upon her, and she knew again her pressing need to find the thing for which she searched.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Pray be quick, sir,"—said Elinor, impatiently;—"I have no time to spare."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

With the first burst of the band, Amy's color rose, her eyes began to sparkle, and her feet to tap the floor impatiently, for she danced well and wanted Laurie to know it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Impatiently I waited for evening, when I might summon you to my presence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I cursed the laziness of the servants that they should lie abed at such an hour—for it was now ten o'clock—and so rang and knocked again, but more impatiently, but still without response.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Yes, plenty of work," Miller blurted out impatiently.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Henry had said he should just go and ask the Bertrams how they did, and be back in ten minutes, but he was gone above an hour; and when his sister, who had been waiting for him to walk with her in the garden, met him at last most impatiently in the sweep, and cried out, My dear Henry, where can you have been all this time? he had only to say that he had been sitting with Lady Bertram and Fanny.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Stop, stop, Mr. Thorpe,” she impatiently cried; “it is Miss Tilney; it is indeed. How could you tell me they were gone? Stop, stop, I will get out this moment and go to them.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)