Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an impatient manner; with impatience, uneasiness, or restlessness; intolerantly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an impatient manner.

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  • adverb without patience

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  • adverb with impatience; in an impatient manner

Etymologies

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impatient +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I can imagine even Charlemagne waving that cumbrous label impatiently aside, though Noyon mixed with Laon was his first capital.

    Everyman's Land 1889

  • Edwin impatiently interrupted the other's threatened garrulousness.

    Page 3 2010

  • "Yea, yea," the little shaman put in impatiently, "that I have fallen on ill days, else would I not stand in gratitude to you in that you do my work."

    THE MASTER OF MYSTERY 2010

  • As I hurried to the stairs I heard him call impatiently to the Count to come out of the library.

    The Woman in White 2003

  • Hayes! he called impatiently for his striker, tugging at the collar of his dress uniform the minute he entered his rooms.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • Hayes! he called impatiently for his striker, tugging at the collar of his dress uniform the minute he entered his rooms.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • And she ran from the apartment to the tube station, returned home, closed the door and lay on the sofa and wept until her father called impatiently from the other room and she walked in and lovingly stroked his forehead until he could go to sleep.

    Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

  • "Come in," I call impatiently, and Celia finds me absolutely in the throes.

    Once a Week 1919

  • She beckoned to Aggie to get out of the room and to leave her a clear field and as soon as her friend had gone quietly into the next room, she called impatiently to Alfred who was still cooing rapturously over the young stranger.

    Baby Mine Margaret Mayo 1916

  • Edwin impatiently interrupted the other's threatened garrulousness.

    The Scarlet Plague 1912

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