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Hasty vs Impatient - What's the difference?

hasty | impatient |

As adjectives the difference between hasty and impatient

is that hasty is acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it. while impatient is restless and intolerant of delays.

hasty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it. )
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    • Derived terms

    * hastily * hastiness * overhasty

    Related terms

    * haste * hasten * hasteful * hurried

    Anagrams

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    impatient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • restless and intolerant of delays
  • * Addison
    • The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him.
  • anxious and eager, especially to begin something
  • (obsolete) Not to be borne; unendurable.
    • (Spenser)
  • Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.
    • impatient speeches or replies
  • * 1594 , , III. ii. 287:
    • What, will you tear / Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?

    Derived terms

    * impatiently