Antonyms for patience
ˈpeɪ ʃənspa·tience

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. patience

   Patience is the quality or habit of mind shown in bearing passively and uncomplainingly any pain, evil, or hardship that may fall to one's lot. Endurance hardens itself against suffering, and may be merely stubborn; fortitude is endurance animated by courage; endurance may by modifiers be made to have a passive force, as when we speak of "passive endurance;" patience is not so hard as endurance nor so self-effacing as submission. Submission is ordinarily and resignation always applied to matters of great moment, while patience may apply to slight worries and annoyances. As regards our relations to our fellow men, forbearance is abstaining from retaliation or revenge; patience is keeping kindliness of heart under vexatious conduct; long-suffering is continued patience. Patience may also have an active force denoting uncomplaining steadiness in doing, as in tilling the soil. Compare INDUSTRY.

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   Synonyms:
   calmness, composure, endurance, forbearance, fortitude, leniency, long-suffering, resignation, submission, sufferance

   Preposition:
   Patience in or amid sufferings; patience with (rarely toward) opposers or offenders; patience under afflictions; (rarely) patience of heat or cold, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. patience

   Antonyms:
   resistance, unsubmissiveness, repining, rebellion, inconsistency, impatience

   Synonyms:
   endurance, resignation, submission, perseverance

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. patience, forbearance, longanimitynoun

   good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

   Antonyms:
   impatience

   Synonyms:
   forbearance, solitaire, longanimity

2. solitaire, patiencenoun

   a card game played by one person

   Antonyms:
   impatience

   Synonyms:
   forbearance, solitaire, longanimity

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. patiencenoun

   Antonyms:
   impatience, restiveness, resistance

   Synonyms:
   long-suffering, fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, indulgence, leniency, forbearance, persistence, diligence, perseverance

How to use patience in a sentence?

1. Google Docs:

   We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.

2. Los Angeles:

   She is like the perfect mother, very nurturing. He is the perfect father( with) responsibility, very honorable, but what I noticed in the charts is that as parents, Prince Harry will actually have more patience than Meghan.

3. Oswald Chambers:

   We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

4. Michael Kemmer:

   Rebuilding ties with Iran requires patience, to begin with, the transactions regimen has to work again before the next step of financing projects can take place.

5. Benjamin Franklin:

   He that can have patience can have what he will.

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