impatient

adjective

1 the hours ticked by and Melissa grew impatient:

restless, restive, agitated, nervous, anxious, ill at ease, fretful, edgy, jumpy, jittery, worked up, keyed up;

British nervy;

informal twitchy, uptight.

▷antonyms calm; indifferent.

2 they are impatient to get back home:

anxious, eager, keen, avid, desirous, yearning, longing, aching;

informal itching, dying, raring, gagging, straining at the leash.

▷antonyms reluctant.

3 he dismissed them with an impatient gesture:

irritated, annoyed, angry, testy, tetchy, snappy, cross, crabby, moody, grumpy, querulous, fretful, peevish, peeved, piqued, discontented, displeased, disgruntled;

intolerant, short-tempered, quick-tempered;

abrupt, curt, brusque, terse, short;

informal aggravated, grouchy;

British, informal narked, narky, ratty, eggy, shirty.

▷antonyms pleased.

impatient Oxford Dictionary of English