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発音

• IPA: /ɪmˈpeɪʃəntli/
• ハイフネーション: im‧pa‧tient‧ly

副詞

impatiently (comparative more impatiently, superlative most impatiently)

1. In an impatient manner.

   Stella was waiting impatiently for the delivery to come.

   • 1848, Jacob Abbott, “Story I. Labour Lost.—Elky.”, in Rollo at Work: Or, The Way for a Boy to Learn to be Industrious‎, London: James S. Hodson, page 5:

     He watched his corn impatiently for two days, and, as it did not come up, he thought he would plant it again with beans. He ought to have waited longer.

   • 1887, James H. Scott, “O, Where Is Our Bird?”, in Poems‎, second edition, St. Louis: Slawson & Co., page 68:

     The keys are awaiting
     Thy magical touch,
     And the strings are impatiently mute.

   • 1946 July 1, “Sistine Ceiling[:] In Vatican chapel Michelangelo painted tremendous scenes from Bible”, in LIFE‎, volume 21, number 1, Time Inc, →ISSN, page 63:

     When the work was almost completed, the Pope impatiently asked when it would be finished. Michelangelo answered, "When I shall be able".

反意語

• patiently