patient: meaning and definitions

Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness.

Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.

Tolerant; understanding: an unfailingly patient leader and guide.

Persevering; constant: With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.

Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.

Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance: "My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries” ( Laurence Sterne).

One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.

Linguistics A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.

Archaic One who suffers.