patient

1 accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint you were very patient about having to wait for me for so long Synonyms forbearing, long-suffering, stoic (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining Related Words lenient; acquiescent, passive, resigned, unresistant, yielding; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformist, docile, law-abiding, obedient, placable, submissive, subordinate, tractable, willing; slavish, subservient; amiable, obliging; collected, composed; constrained, contained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained; disciplined, self-contained, self-controlled; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive Near Antonyms bored, tired, weary; defiant, resistant; contrary, disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly Antonyms complaining, fed up, impatient, kvetching, kvetchy, protesting

2 continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement a patient effort to finish college despite the mounting debts Synonyms dogged, insistent, persistent, persevering, pertinacious, tenaciousRelated Words assured, certain, dedicated, determined, firm, hell-bent, intent, positive, resolute, resolved, single-minded, sure; adamant, bullheaded, dogged, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, indurate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unregenerate, unyielding, willful (or wilful); unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering; resistant, wayward, wrongheaded; constant, devoted, faithful, good, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true; indomitable, unconquerable; hard, inflexible, relentless, stern, unbending, unflinching, unrelentingNear Antonyms quitting, surrendering, yielding; faltering, hesitant, hesitating, irresolute, vacillating, wavering; disloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous

an individual awaiting or under medical care and treatment the nurse asked the patient to change into a paper gown Synonyms case Related Words inpatient, outpatient; rehabilitant; sufferer, victim; convalescent, nursling