patient

adjective · nounB1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more patient

Superlative

most patient

1.
(of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
Đồng nghĩa: composed, forbearing
2.
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
patient endeavour
a patient wait
patient analysis
c. 1692, Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Dr. Richard Bentley Whatever I have done […] is due to […] patient thought.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: determined, sedulous, steady
3.
(obsolete)Physically able to suffer or bear.
Đồng nghĩa: sufferable, resistant, patient, resistant, sufferable, tolerant

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

patients

1.
A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.
At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.
2.
(linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
3.
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

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Đồng nghĩa

composedforbearingdetermined sedulous steady sufferable resistant tolerant

Trái nghĩa

antsy impatient agent doermacrophobic;doer#Noun

Cùng gốc / liên quan

omnipatient overpatient patientlypatient as Jobunpatientpatient zeroend

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro 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 *peh₁- (to hate, hurt).