Impatient

Has difficulty tolerating delay, slow progress, repetition, or waiting.

Impatient means: Has difficulty tolerating delay, slow progress, repetition, or waiting. Behavior in practice: Rushes others, becomes irritated when results take time, and may choose a poorer fast option over a better slower one. Context for Impatient: The tendency is best understood through repeated behavior across situations, because intention, intensity, timing, and consequences can change how it is experienced. Similar traits for Impatient: hurried, irritable, restless — related qualities that overlap with Impatient while differing in motive, behavior, or intensity. Opposite traits for Impatient: patient, calm, unhurried — useful contrasts showing how behavior or judgment can move in a different direction from Impatient. When Impatient becomes frequent or intense, it can weaken trust, judgment, cooperation, or well-being; one isolated episode, however, is not enough to define a person by this label. To assess Impatient fairly, look for a consistent pattern across time and situations, consider the surrounding context, and avoid defining someone by a single incident.