patiently

English

Alternative forms

• paciently (archaic)

Etymology

From patient +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪʃəntli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: pa‧tient‧ly

Adverb

patiently (comparative more patiently, superlative most patiently)

1. In a patient manner.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it."

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

Antonyms

• impatiently

Translations

in a patient manner

• Catalan: pacientment (ca)
• Czech: trpělivě
• Esperanto: pacience
• Estonian: kannatlikult (et)
• Finnish: kärsivällisesti (fi)
• French: patiemment (fr)
• Galician: pacientemente
• German: geduldig (de)
• Greek: υπομονετικά (el) (ypomonetiká)
• Hungarian: türelmesen (hu)
• Italian: pazientemente (it)
• Norman: pâciemment
• Polish: cierpliwie (pl)
• Portuguese: pacientemente
• Russian: терпели́во (ru) (terpelívo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стр̀пљиво

  Roman: str̀pljivo (sh)

• Spanish: pacientemente