What's the difference between impatient and impetuous?

Impatient


Definition:

  • (a.) Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under.
  • (a.) Not to be borne; unendurable.
  • (a.) Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies.
  • (n.) One who is impatient.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the day of the procedure, the patient arrives at 7 a.m., is shaved, prepared and operated on by a senior surgeon before impatient operations begin.
  • (2) The results of this study suggest that TABP and its components are not positively associated with physiological risk factors for CVD; and the impatience-aggression component of TABP is associated with lower levels of atherogenic lipids.
  • (3) By the beginning of the 1960s the American press began to see Salinger's refusal to engage with the public as a provocation, while critics became increasingly impatient with the spiritual worries of the Glass family.
  • (4) The Irritation and Impatience dimension was consistently related to task-induced changes in heart rate, both in regression analyses and in extreme group analyses of variance.
  • (5) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
  • (6) Immunity does not or only to a low extent influence impatient infections or the migration of reactivated somatic larvae.
  • (7) These results are consistent with reports that tobacco withdrawal increases difficulty concentrating and impatience but does not increase fatigue.
  • (8) The equally impatient Conservative MP Stephen Barclay waded in.
  • (9) Findings regarding the construct validity of Type A behaviour revealed its basic component to be impatience characterized by aggression, a chronic sense of time urgency and competitiveness.
  • (10) Dozens of fighters deployed at checkpoints outside the town appear impatient to move in.
  • (11) More than 15 million Egyptians have signed a petition calling for the president's downfall, furious at Morsi's unilateralism and impatient at plummeting living standards.
  • (12) Among the different components of Type A behaviour, Factor S (measuring speed and impatience) was found to be significantly higher in the study group.
  • (13) Everything else will be a band aid fix, not a long-term solution... Everything else will be the prisoner of impatience and that has brought us to this unacceptable and unstable status quo,” said Kerry.
  • (14) Indirect corroboration of the impact of environmental crisis is idicated by the prevalence of requests for this help in impatient cases of abuse (38 per cent) and ingestions (38 per cent) vs. controls (14 per cent).
  • (15) We present five case reports reviewing various current therapeutic options, including newer pharmacologic agents, and comment on alternatives to impatient management of pain crises.
  • (16) You can’t say that,” he says with impatient exasperation, when I suggest the Coalition , with its commanding majority in the lower house and its pretty well-known opposition to carbon pricing, is highly unlikely to ever back an ETS put forward by PUP even if the price is set at zero until certain that Australia’s trading partners have acted.
  • (17) Type A behaviour pattern, characterised by excessive competitiveness, impatience, hostility and time urgency, has been previously investigated as a risk factor for coronary heart disease.
  • (18) In contrast, subjects with high Hard-Driving scores, high Speed-Impatience scores, or high overall Type A scores did not evidence higher physiological arousal in response to either the cognitive or the physical exercise tasks.
  • (19) These normal sleep disturbances, combined with teenagers' natural tendency to stay up late, can make them excessively tired, irritable, impatient and depressed.
  • (20) Were Cook batting well, England would most likely win this match, his dismissal yesterday even more telling than one caused by a technical deficiency; the shot that caused him to drag on evidenced an impatient and frazzled man, precisely what he is not, but now is.

Impetuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.
  • (a.) Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
  • (2) The Fabian Beatrice Webb used to try to cheer her more impetuous colleagues with the thought of the inevitability of gradualism, but nowadays she is looking a little hasty.
  • (3) One patient acts impetuously while another seems to have lost his spontaneity.
  • (4) The young Yorkist King Edward IV's impetuous union with the beautiful Elizabeth Woodville didn't produce such an immediate bloodbath in 15th-century England, but its eventual consequences – dead princes in the Tower, a usurping king slaughtered at Bosworth and the coming of the Tudors – were scarcely less cataclysmic: the Plantagenets, like the Starks, wiped out by their enemies.
  • (5) They are not, generally, short, pushy, vulgar, uncultured, impetuous, shamelessly admiring of money and those who have it, or married – three months after divorcing his last wife, two months after meeting the new one – to ex-supermodels whose past conquests reportedly include Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger.
  • (6) Gayle’s second booking duly arrived just before the break, his impetuousness again getting the better of him as he fractionally mistimed a lunge on Cheikhou Kouyaté.
  • (7) So you have a self-selected sample of impetuous people, thinking … well, I don't know what they were thinking because they wouldn't say.
  • (8) Because of the impetuous nature of some crack-related sexual activity and because 76% of respondents acknowledged that they were either "very worried" or "somewhat worried" that they might get acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, it is possible that a program of widespread distribution of condoms in neighborhoods where crack use is prevalent might make it possible for the worried, impulsive crack user to practice "safer sex."
  • (9) On introspective examination, these cardiac patients showed an increased feeling of inferiority and of basic anxiety and a more impetuous behaviour as their way of self-protection, but a reduced need for independence due to parental overprotection was not confirmed.
  • (10) Any opportunities for tracing up etiologic factors and exerting therapeutic influence, if at all, will be restricted to initial stages of the, otherwise, impetuous development.
  • (11) Smokers, regardless of intensity of habit, report that they are more defiant, impetuous, thrill-and-danger seeking, emotionally labile and preoccupied with oral concerns that are non and former smokers.
  • (12) True, young people tend to be more open, straightforward and impetuous than older ones.
  • (13) "His relationship with authority is linked to the way he constantly had to duck and dive against the impetuous, authoritarian character of his father.
  • (14) The peak of trypomastigotes with the kinetoplast deprived of obviously stained RNA precedes the impetuous increase of parasitemia.
  • (15) Perhaps with a cry of "Put your dukes up, Obama", as the impetuous hothead hurdles over seats to uphold the family honour.
  • (16) Controversial and impetuous in his youth, he matured into a world-class social historian and remained impetuous to the end.
  • (17) Similarly, the developers of chemicals complain that EU regulation kills impetuous to develop acceptable alternatives.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Once upon a time, his supporters adored this kind of impetuous display, for it showcased Trump’s authenticity.
  • (19) "She's very careful and thoughtful, not impetuous and won't have made this decision quickly."
  • (20) More recently it was Sarkozy, too, who made all the early running over Libya: taking a highly impetuous gamble by recognising the rebels, persuading a reluctant US to come in, flying missions over Libyan soil before anyone else got airborne, supplying arms, and calling two separate summits at the Elysée.