different between impatient vs bursting

English

Etymology

From Old French impacient (modern French impatient), from Latin impati?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pe???nt/
• Hyphenation: im?pa?tient

Adjective

impatient (comparative more impatient, superlative most impatient)

1. Restless and intolerant of delays.

   • The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him.

2. Anxious and eager, especially to begin something.
3. (obsolete) Not to be borne; unendurable.
4. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III. ii. 287:

     What, will you tear / Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?

Derived terms

• impatiently
• impatience
• impassive

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pa.sj??/

Adjective

impatient (feminine singular impatiente, masculine plural impatients, feminine plural impatientes)

1. impatient

Noun

impatient m (plural impatients, feminine impatiente)

1. impatient person

Further reading

• “impatient” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?st??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??st??/
• Hyphenation: burst?ing

Adjective

bursting (comparative more bursting, superlative most bursting)

1. Very eager (to do something).

   I was bursting to tell him the secret.

2. (often followed by "to go to...") Urgently needing to urinate.

   Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.

   The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.

Synonyms

• busting

Translations

Verb

bursting

1. present participle of burst

Derived terms

• bursting point

Noun

bursting (plural burstings)

1. The act by which something bursts.

   the burstings of balloons