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Impatient vs Twitchy - What's the difference?

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Impatient is a related term of twitchy.


As adjectives the difference between impatient and twitchy

is that impatient is impatient while twitchy is susceptible to twitching a lot.

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

    twitchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • susceptible to twitching a lot.
  • (figuratively) irritable, cranky
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
  • Johnson's contract expires in November, and four weeks as memorable for scandals off the pitch as any achievements on it will do little to appease the notoriously twitchy committee-men at the Rugby Football Union.