{
    "term": "impatient",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "annoyed by somebody/something, especially because you have to wait for a long time",
            "sensetop": "impatient with somebody/somethingimpatient at something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'd been waiting for twenty minutes and I was getting impatient."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children were growing impatient."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Try not to be too impatient with her.",
                    "contextForm": "impatient with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sarah was becoming increasingly impatient at their lack of interest.",
                    "contextForm": "impatient at something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "An impatient driver behind me sounded his horn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She waved them away with an impatient gesture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sometimes he is very impatient with his students."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's getting impatient with the delays."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "at", "for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "wanting to do something soon; wanting something to happen soon",
            "sensetop": "impatient to do somethingimpatient for something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was clearly impatient to leave.",
                    "contextForm": "impatient to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "impatient for change",
                    "contextForm": "impatient for something"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "at", "for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "unable or unwilling to accept something unpleasant",
            "sensetop": "impatient of somebody/something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "impatient of criticism"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈpeɪʃnt/",
                "audio": "im/impatient/impatient__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈpeɪʃnt/",
                "audio": "im/impatient/impatient__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the senses ‘lacking patience’ and ‘unbearable’): via Old French from Latin impatient- ‘not bearing, impatient’, from in- ‘not’ + pati ‘suffer, bear’ ."
}