1 impatient (at sth/with sb) not able to stay calm and wait for sb/sth; easily annoyed by sb/sth that seems slow 不耐烦的: The passengers are getting impatient at the delay. 乘客对这次延误越来越不耐烦。It's no good being impatient with small children. 对小孩子光着急没有用。 [OPP] patient 反义词为patient

2 impatient for/to do sth wanting sth to happen soon 迫不及待: By the time they are sixteen many young people are impatient to leave school. 很多年轻人满十六岁时都迫不及待要离开学校。 ➔impatience noun [U]: He began to explain for the third time with growing impatience. 他开始作第三次解释的时候，就越来越不耐烦了。 ➔impatiently adv