different between impatient vs unquiet

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

Etymology

From un- +? quiet.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a??t

Adjective

unquiet (comparative unquieter, superlative unquietest)

1. Uneasy and restless; unable to settle.

   an unquiet mind

2. Causing unease or restlessness.

   an unquiet night

Verb

unquiet (third-person singular simple present unquiets, present participle unquieting, simple past and past participle unquieted)

1. (now rare) To disturb, disquiet.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIV:

     Butt the unbelevinge iewes, steryd uppe and unquyeted the myndes off the gentyles agaynste the brethren.

   • 1649, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII

     they were greatly troubled, and unquieted