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Impatient vs Apprehensive - What's the difference?

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Impatient is a related term of apprehensive.


As adjectives the difference between impatient and apprehensive

is that impatient is impatient while apprehensive is .

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

    apprehensive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
  • * 1719 ,
    • this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
  • Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
  • * 1670 ,
    • More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

    Derived terms

    * apprehensively