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• a  restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition
  impatient with the slower students
  impatient of criticism
• s  (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness
  impatient to begin

• Consumers are impatient with the mainstream media.
• Japan is becoming impatient with demands that it should constantly apologize for what happened more than 60 years ago.
• An upwardly mobile member of New York's largest Mafia family, run by Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, Luciano grew impatient at the Castellammarese war in the late 1920s, a long .

• raring

• patient

News & Articles

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• Mid-Market Manufacturers 'Impatient' with Slow Growth
  Survey shows U.S. manufacturers optimistic about their sales, but concerned about weak recovery, impact of regulations. Feeling a bit impatient about the weak recovery? You're not alone. read more
  June 19, 2013 - Industry Week
• Silverstone podium still a step too far for Button
  By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Jenson Button could not wait to get out of his mishandling McLaren after a miserable afternoon in Canada and now, less than two weeks later, he is impatient to step back in. British fans preparing for their annual home Grand Prix pilgrimage to Silverstone next week should not get their hopes up, however. Button, the 2009 world champion with Brawn GP, has never ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Motor racing-Silverstone podium still a step too far for Button
  By Alan Baldwin LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Jenson Button could not wait to get out of his mishandling McLaren after a miserable afternoon in Canada and now, less than two weeks later, he is impatient to step back in. British fans preparing for their annual home Grand Prix pilgrimage to Silverstone next week should not get their hopes up, however. Button, the 2009 world champion with Brawn GP ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Nick Clegg in ABC News
  I'm as impatient as anybody else to get on with this, to resolve matters one way or another,Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and kingmaker, told reporters outside his house this morning.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in International Herald Tribune
  There are a lot of people who say, 'Well we should just wrap this up,'Clinton told several hundred South Dakotans while standing on the porch of a fourth-generation family farmhouse in Bath. "Well I've never been impatient with democracy."
• Ehud Olmert in International Herald Tribune
  I know that some of you are not happy about our emphasis on inflation control. There have been some impatient editorials about the sacrifice of growth at the altar of inflation control. Also there are global concerns of a slowdown. We need to be... Manmohan Singh http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmohan_Singh&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH6ZyRkwy1bOgMraS9dZn9q9TYvkg Hindu Business Line http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/02/16/stories/2008021651951000.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF2xev9tJEjID4C5aFt16yhH7-2ww Feb 15, 2008 49913 67644 impatiently Don't wait impatiently tonight for the outcome as if at the end of the day you are going to see us sitting and signing a peace treaty," Olmert said. "It will take time."