different between listless vs patient

English

Etymology

From Middle English lystles, equivalent to list (“desire”) +? -less. Compare Dutch lusteloos (“lethargic, listless”). Doublet of lustless.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?stl?s/

Adjective

listless (comparative more listless, superlative most listless)

1. Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
   • 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, ch. 18:

     I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.

   • 1861, Charlotte M. Yonge, The Stokesley Secret, ch. 6:

     What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless, stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!

   • 1901, William Somerset Maugham, The Hero, ch. 21:

     The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.

   • 2005 Nov. 29, Aryn Baker, "John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time:

     “Listless, inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”

Derived terms

• listlessly
• listlessness

Translations

Anagrams

• slitless

English

Etymology

From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hate, hurt”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

patient (comparative patienter or more patient, superlative patientest or most patient)

1. (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

2. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
   • December 15, 2016, Hettie Judah in the New York Times, Beloved Children’s-Book Characters, in Their Own Immersive World

     “Her personal life and her art were very intertwined: You can’t really separate them,” explains Sophia Jansson. “She mirrored her own a reality onto a fictional reality.” And this is perhaps the nub of the Moomin’s enduring appeal: a combination of adventuresome spirit and philosophy, all of which Jansson derived from close and patient observation, of human relationships and of the natural world alike.

   • c. 1692, Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Dr. Richard Bentley

     Whatever I have done […] is due to […] patient thought.

3. (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
   • 1661, John Fell, Doctor Henry Hammond, 1810, Christopher Wordsworth (editor), Ecclesiastical Biography, Volume 5, page 380,

     To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.

Synonyms

• composed

Antonyms

• impatient
• antsy
• macrophobic

Derived terms

• patiently

Related terms

• passion
• passionate
• passive
• passivity
• patience

Translations

Noun

patient (plural patients)

1. A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
2. (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
3. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
   • c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue

     Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.

Antonyms

• (linguistics, grammar): agent

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• -end

Further reading

• patient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• patient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• antipet

Danish

Etymology

From Latin pati?ns (“suffering”), the present active participle of patior (“to suffer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?a???n?d?]

Noun

patient c (singular definite patienten, plural indefinite patienter)

1. patient (person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person)

Inflection

Derived terms

See also

• klient

References

• “patient” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Middle French patient, from Old French patient, borrowed from Latin pati?ns, patientem

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.sj??/

Adjective

patient (feminine singular patiente, masculine plural patients, feminine plural patientes)

1. patient

   Antonym: impatient

Derived terms

• patiemment
• patienter

Related terms

• patience

Noun

patient m (plural patients, feminine patiente)

1. a patient, an outpatient

Further reading

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

Middle English

Adjective

patient

1. Alternative form of pacient

Noun

patient

1. Alternative form of pacient

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patiens, patientem.

Noun

patient m (oblique plural patienz or patientz, nominative singular patienz or patientz, nominative plural patient)

1. (medicine) patient

Descendants

• Middle French: patient
  • French: patient
  • ? Middle English: pacient, paciente, pacyent, patient
    • English: patient
• Norman: pâcient

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

patient c

1. a patient

Declension

Related terms

• långvårdspatient
• patientavgift
• patientförening

Anagrams

• aptiten