impatient

• abrupt
• agog
• ambitious
• amenable
• antsy
• anxious
• appetent
• ardent
• athirst
• avid
• breathless
• brusque
• chafing
• champing at the bit
• choleric
• chomping at the bit
• complaining
• covetous
• craving
• crazy
• curt
• demanding
• desirous
• disposed
• dying to
• eager
• edgy
• engaged
• enthused
• enthusiastic
• excited
• feverish
• fretful
• fussing
• game
• geeked
• glad
• great
• greedy
• griping
• grumbling
• gung ho
• hankering
• happy
• hasty
• having short fuse
• headlong
• hepped up
• hopped-up
• hot
• hot under collar
• hot-tempered
• hung up
• hungry
• impetuous
• inclined
• indignant
• interested
• intolerant
• irascible
• irritable
• itchy
• juiced
• keen
• kvetching
• longing
• nuts
• obsessed
• on pins and needles
• pining
• protesting
• pumped
• quick-tempered
• raring
• ready
• restive
• restless
• ripe
• snappy
• solicitous
• squawking
• stoked
• straining
• sudden
• testy
• thirsty
• uncompromising
• unforbearing
• unforgiving
• unindulgent
• unreluctant
• unyielding
• vehement
• violent
• voracious
• whining
• wild
• willing

• abiding
• accepting
• aloof
• apathetic
• averse
• casual
• controlled
• detached
• disinclined
• disinterested
• easygoing
• enduring
• forbearing
• forgiving
• halfhearted
• happy
• hesitant
• impassive
• incurious
• indifferent
• indulgent
• insouciant
• lackadaisical
• laid-back
• languid
• languorous
• loath
• loathe
• long-suffering
• loth
• lukewarm
• nonchalant
• patient
• reluctant
• resigned
• spiritless
• stolid
• tolerant
• uncomplaining
• unconcerned
• uneager
• unenthusiastic
• uninterested
• unwilling
• waiting
• willing

• adjective
  1. Restless and intolerant of delays.
  2. Anxious and eager, especially to begin something.
  3. Not to be borne; unendurable.
  4. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.

• She became impatient while waiting in the long queue at the grocery store.
• His impatient tone revealed his frustration with the delay.
• The children grew impatient as the game was postponed due to rain.
• He is often impatient when things don’t go according to his plan.
• The audience grew impatient as the concert started an hour late.

eager

• acquisitive
• agog
• ambitious
• amenable
• antsy
• anxious
• appetent
• ardent
• athirst
• avid
• breathless
• champing at the bit
• chomping at the bit
• covetous
• craving
• crazy
• desiring
• desirous
• disposed
• dying to
• earnest
• engaged
• enthused
• enthusiastic
• excited
• fervent
• fervid
• game
• geeked
• glad
• great
• greedy
• gung ho
• gung-ho
• hankering
• happy
• heated
• hepped up
• hopped-up
• hot
• hot to trot
• hung up
• hungry
• impatient
• inclined
• intent
• interested
• juiced
• keen
• longing
• nuts
• obsessed
• pining
• pumped
• raring
• ready
• ready and willing
• restive
• restless
• self-starting
• solicitous
• stoked
• thirsty
• unreluctant
• vehement
• voracious
• warmblooded
• wild
• willing
• wishful
• yearning
• zealous

eagerly

• actively
• aggressively
• animatedly
• anticipatorily
• ardently
• assertively
• avidly
• breathlessly
• briskly
• cordially
• cravingly
• crisply
• decidedly
• determinedly
• directly
• dynamically
• earnestly
• emphatically
• energetically
• enthusiastically
• excitedly
• expectantly
• explosively
• exuberantly
• fanatically
• fast
• fervently
• fiercely
• firmly
• fixedly
• forcefully
• forcibly
• full tilt
• gamely
• gladly
• hammer and tongs
• hard
• heartily
• hungrily
• impatiently
• intensively
• intently
• keenly
• longingly
• lustily
• madly
• manfully
• mightily
• muscularly
• potently
• powerfully
• promptly
• purposefully
• rabidly
• rapidly
• readily
• resolutely
• rhapsodically
• rigidly
• robustly
• roughshod
• roundly
• sharply
• sincerely
• sky-high
• smartly
• snappily
• solidly
• soundly
• speedily
• spiritedly
• spunkily
• squarely
• steadfastly
• steadily
• stiffly
• stoutly
• strenuously
• strongly
• sturdily
• surely
• thirstily
• vehemently
• vigorously
• violently
• vivaciously
• warmly
• willingly
• with enthusiasm
• with gusto
• zealously
• zestfully

edgy

• activating
• aflutter
• aggravating
• aggrieved
• angering
• annoying
• antsy
• anxious
• apprehensive
• atwitter
• bothered
• bothersome
• charged
• clawlike
• concerned
• critical
• cutting
• daggerlike
• disquieted
• distraught
• distressed
• disturbed
• dithery
• edged
• energizing
• enraging
• exasperating
• excitable
• excited
• exciting
• explosive
• fidgety
• fiery
• flighty
• flustered
• fluttery
• foreboding
• freaked
• freaked-out
• fretful
• fretting
• galling
• galvanizing
• goosey
• ground
• hesitant
• het up
• high-strung
• hinky
• honed
• hung up
• hypertense
• ill at ease
• impatient
• incendiary
• inciting
• inducing
• inflammatory
• insecure
• inspirational
• inspiring
• instigating
• instigative
• irascible
• irksome
• irritable
• irritating
• jabbing
• jagged
• jeering
• jittery
• jumpy
• keen
• keyed up
• knifelike
• lacerating
• maddening
• misgiving
• motivating
• motivational
• motivative
• nervous
• nervy
• obsessed
• on edge
• on pins and needles
• on tenterhooks
• overstrung
• perturbed
• pesky
• piercing
• piquing
• pointed
• pointy
• preoccupied
• provocative
• provoking
• qualmish
• qualmy
• queasy
• queazy
• quickening
• restive
• restless
• scratching
• sharp
• sharpened
• shook-up
• skittish
• spikey
• spiky
• spooky
• stabbing
• stewing
• stimulating
• stropped
• taunting
• teasing
• tense
• touchy
• trenchant
• triggering
• troubled
• twittered
• undone
• uneasy
• unnerved
• unquiet
• unstrung
• upset
• upsetting
• uptight
• vexatious
• vexed
• vexing
• vitalizing
• whetted
• worried

fagged

• all in
• annoyed
• ashen
• asleep
• attacked
• banged away
• beat
• been around
• blah
• bleary
• blown
• bone-tired
• bored
• bowed low
• broke
• broken-down
• burned out
• burnt out
• bushed
• bust
• busted
• careworn
• collapsing
• consumed
• cool
• dead
• dead tired
• debilitated
• dejected
• depleted
• depressed
• did in
• did up
• disarmed
• disbursed
• discontented
• disgusted
• dissipated
• distressed
• dog-tired
• done
• done for
• done in
• done it all
• down the drain
• drained
• drawn
• drooping
• droopy
• drove
• drowned
• drowsy
• drudged
• dug in
• dulled
• effete
• eked out
• emaciated
• empty
• endeavored
• enervated
• enfeebled
• essayed
• exasperated
• exercised
• exerted
• exhausted
• expended
• faded
• faint
• far-gone
• fatigued
• fed up
• finished
• flagging
• frazzled
• fretted
• gaunt
• ghastly
• grubbed
• had it
• haggard
• harassed
• humped
• hustled
• immobilized
• impatient
• incapacitated
• inconsolable
• indifferent
• irked
• irritated
• jaded
• killed
• knocked out
• knocked over
• knuckled down
• labored
• lank
• lean
• limp
• lost
• moiled
• narcoleptic
• obedient
• on last leg
• out of gas
• outwore
• overcome
• overexerted
• overtaxed
• overworked
• pale
• pallid
• paralyzed
• petered out
• pinched
• pitched in
• played-out
• plodded
• plowed
• plugged
• pooped
• prostrate
• prostrated
• punchy
• put out
• ready to drop
• run down
• sapped
• sated
• satiated
• scrabbled
• scraggy
• scratched
• scrawny
• shattered
• shot
• shrunken
• sick and tired
• sick of
• skinny
• slaved
• sleepy
• slogged
• spare
• spent
• stale
• starved
• strained
• strived
• strove
• struggled
• surfeited
• sweat
• sweat blood
• sweated
• sweated blood
• taxed
• thin
• thrown away
• tired
• tired-out
• toiled
• travailed
• tried
• trudged
• tuckered
• tuckered out
• tugged
• up to here
• used
• used-up
• waded
• wan
• washed out
• washed-out
• washed-up
• wasted
• weak
• weakened
• wearied
• weary
• wiped-out
• wore
• wore out
• wore to a frazzle
• worked
• worn
• worn-down
• worn-out
• wrinkled
• wrought
• zonked

fanatically

• avidly
• eagerly
• enthusiastically
• excitedly
• exuberantly
• impatiently
• keenly
• madly
• rabidly
• rhapsodically
• sky-high
• warmly
• zealously

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