impatiently

comparative more impatiently · superlative most impatiently

1. In an impatient manner.

   Stella was waiting impatiently for the delivery to come.

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   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.

   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

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

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

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

   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