Inpatient vs. Impatient
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Difference Between Inpatient and Impatient
Inpatientnoun
(healthcare) A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.
Impatientadjective
Restless and intolerant of delays.
Inpatientnoun
a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated
Impatientadjective
Anxious and eager, especially to begin something.
Impatientadjective
(obsolete) Not to be borne; unendurable.
Impatientadjective
Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.
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Impatientadjective
restless or short of temper under delay or opposition;
impatient with the slower studentsimpatient of criticismImpatientadjective
(usually followed by `to') full of eagerness;
impatient to beginraring to go
