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patient
Synonyms and Antonyms of patient
- you were very patient about having to wait for me for so long
acquiescent, passive, resigned, unresistant, yielding
agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformist, docile, law-abiding, obedient, placable, submissive, subordinate, tractable, willing
constrained, contained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained
- a patient effort to finish college despite the mounting debts
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
hard, inflexible, relentless, stern, unbending, unflinching, unrelenting
patient
Synonyms and Antonyms of patient
- the nurse asked the patient to change into a paper gown
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