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Impatient vs Expectant - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between impatient and expectant

is that impatient is restless and intolerant of delays while expectant is marked by expectation.

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

    expectant

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • marked by expectation
    • An expectant hush before the performance.
  • pregnant
    • An expectant mother.
  • (medicine, dated) Waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.