impatiently
Meaning
in a way that shows you are not willing to wait for something or someone, or that you are annoyed by a delay
in a way that shows you are easily annoyed by somebody/something, especially because you have to wait
Structure
Usage
she tapped her fingers impatiently on the desk.
"hurry up!" he said impatiently.
the crowd waited impatiently for the concert to begin.
Etymology
the word 'impatiently' is built upon the core latin concept of enduring, captured in the root 'patient'. this root derives from the latin verb 'pati', meaning "to suffer or endure", which itself can be traced back to the proto-indo-european root peh₁- meaning "to hurt". the latin negative prefix 'in-' (assimilated to 'im-' before 'p') was attached to form 'impatient', meaning "not enduring". the old english adverbial suffix '-ly' was later appended to create the adverb. thus, the literal meaning "in a manner of not enduring" evolved logically into the modern sense of acting with irritation at delay or opposition.
Analysis
im: latin origin, a prefix meaning "not". patient: latin origin (from 'pati' meaning "to suffer, endure"), acting as the core adjective meaning "able to accept delays or problems without becoming annoyed". ly: old english origin, an adverb-forming suffix.