Definition for Patience:

• p[= a]' shens, n. quality of being patient or able calmly to endure: ( Shak.) permission: a card-game, same as Solitaire ( q.v.).-- adj. P[= A]' TIENT, sustaining pain, & c., without repining: not easily provoked: not in a hurry: persevering: expecting with calmness: long-suffering.-- n. one who bears or suffers: a person under medical treatment.-- adv. P[= A]' TIENTLY. [ Fr.,-- L. patentia-- patiens-- pati, to bear.]

Synonyms for Patience:

• n.

  •
  • bearing,
  • fortitude,
  • hastiness,
  • impatience,
  • indulgence,
  • leniency,
  • long-suffering,
  • moderation,
  • nonresistance,
  • passiveness,
  • pontoon,
  • resignation,
  • self-control,
  • stoicism,
  • submission,
  • sufferance,
  • tolerance,
  • yielding,
  • beggar-thy-neighbor.
  •
  • steadiness.
  •
  • accept.
  •act (noun)
  • solitaire.
  •calm (noun)
  • calm,
  • calmness,
  • composure,
  • equanimity,
  • peace,
  • peacefulness,
  • placidity,
  • poise,
  • quiet,
  • repose,
  • rest,
  • serenity,
  • stillness,
  • tranquility.
  •capacity, willingness to endure (noun)
  • backbone,
  • bearing,
  • calmness,
  • composure,
  • constancy,
  • cool,
  • diligence,
  • endurance,
  • equanimity,
  • forbearance,
  • fortitude,
  • grit,
  • guts,
  • gutsiness,
  • heart,
  • humility,
  • imperturbability,
  • leniency,
  • long-suffering,
  • longanimity,
  • moderation,
  • moxie,
  • nonresistance,
  • passiveness,
  • passivity,
  • perseverance,
  • persistence,
  • poise,
  • resignation,
  • restraint,
  • self-control,
  • serenity,
  • starch,
  • staying power,
  • stoicism,
  • submission,
  • sufferance,
  • tolerance,
  • toleration,
  • yielding,
  • legs,
  • intestinal fortitude,
  • even temper.
  •game (noun)
  • baccarat,
  • backgammon,
  • billiards,
  • blackjack,
  • bridge,
  • canasta,
  • checkers,
  • chess,
  • Chinese Checkers,
  • contract bridge,
  • cribbage,
  • dominoes,
  • draughts,
  • draw poker,
  • euchre,
  • faro,
  • game,
  • gin,
  • gin rummy,
  • hearts,
  • hopscotch,
  • horseshoes,
  • keno,
  • mah-jongg,
  • marbles,
  • old maid,
  • parcheesi,
  • penny ante,
  • pinochle,
  • poker,
  • quoits,
  • rum,
  • rummy,
  • seven-up,
  • shuffleboard,
  • snooker,
  • solitaire,
  • straight poker,
  • stud poker,
  • tiddlywinks,
  • whist,
  • Skat,
  • blind man's bluff.
  •impassivity (noun)
  • stoicism.
  •knowledge (noun)
  • experience.
  •lenity (noun)
  • lenity.
  •patience (noun)
  • acceptance,
  • forbearance,
  • longanimity,
  • solitaire,
  • strength.
  •perseverance (noun)
  • bravery,
  • endurance,
  • grit,
  • indefatigability,
  • indomitability,
  • lastingness,
  • perseverance,
  • persistence,
  • sand,
  • stamina,
  • staying power,
  • steadfastness,
  • tenacity,
  • abidingness,
  • survivability,
  • unfailingness.
  •quietness (noun)
  • calmness.
  •resignation (noun)
  • nonresistance.
  •restraint (noun)
  • moderation.
  •temperance (noun)
  • moderation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tolerance,
  • beggar-thy-neighbor.
  •
  • pontoon.
  •forbearance
  • forbearance,
  • indulgence.
  •impassivity
  • stoicism.
  •patience
  • acceptance,
  • strength.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abandonment,
  • abide,
  • abide by,
  • abiding,
  • abstinence,
  • accept,
  • acceptance,
  • affront,
  • aggrieve,
  • allowance,
  • aplomb,
  • application,
  • assiduity,
  • assiduousness,
  • assume,
  • ataraxia,
  • attention,
  • austerity,
  • backbone,
  • banker,
  • bear,
  • bearing,
  • beggar-my-neighbor,
  • behave,
  • beneficence,
  • benevolence,
  • benignity,
  • birth,
  • bluff,
  • bore,
  • boston,
  • bother,
  • brag,
  • bridge whist,
  • bring in,
  • broad-mindedness,
  • buttonhole,
  • card game,
  • cards,
  • carry out,
  • cassino,
  • chafe,
  • charitableness,
  • charity,
  • chastened,
  • clemency,
  • clement,
  • commerce,
  • commit,
  • compassion,
  • comport,
  • concede,
  • concentration,
  • condonation,
  • conduct,
  • confirm,
  • consideration,
  • constancy,
  • constant,
  • contain,
  • content,
  • continuing,
  • control,
  • cool,
  • coolness,
  • cordiality,
  • corroborate,
  • damage,
  • decency,
  • decision,
  • decisiveness,
  • deliver,
  • deport,
  • determination,
  • devotion,
  • diligence,
  • dispassion,
  • dispassionateness,
  • disregard,
  • divine,
  • doggedness,
  • ductile,
  • dullness,
  • durability,
  • durable,
  • easiness,
  • easygoingness,
  • ecarte,
  • effort,
  • elastic,
  • encounter,
  • endorse,
  • endure,
  • enduring,
  • enduringly,
  • engrossment,
  • enrage,
  • exertion,
  • experience,
  • fatalism,
  • fatigue,
  • fidelity,
  • fidget,
  • firmly,
  • firmness,
  • flexible,
  • forbearance,
  • forbearing,
  • forgiveness,
  • forgivingness,
  • fortitude,
  • fret,
  • friendliness,
  • fright,
  • fuss,
  • gall,
  • generosity,
  • generousness,
  • geniality,
  • gentleness,
  • get,
  • Good Naturedness,
  • good temper,
  • good will,
  • goodness,
  • graciousness,
  • gravel,
  • guts,
  • gutsiness,
  • hallowed,
  • hastiness,
  • heart,
  • hinder,
  • holy,
  • hospitality,
  • humaneness,
  • humanity,
  • humility,
  • immortal,
  • impassiveness,
  • impassivity,
  • imperturbability,
  • imperturbableness,
  • in cold blood,
  • indefatigableness,
  • indifference,
  • indulgence,
  • industriousness,
  • industry,
  • inflexibility,
  • insistence,
  • insistency,
  • intentness,
  • irritate,
  • iteration,
  • kindliness,
  • kindness,
  • labor,
  • lamblike,
  • lasting,
  • lastingly,
  • laxness,
  • lenience,
  • leniency,
  • lenity,
  • long-suffering,
  • longanimity,
  • loo,
  • loss,
  • lottery,
  • lotto,
  • loyalty,
  • magnanimity,
  • malleable,
  • meek,
  • mercifulness,
  • mercy,
  • mildness,
  • moderateness,
  • moderation,
  • monte,
  • moxie,
  • nap,
  • nettle,
  • nonplus,
  • nonresistance,
  • obduracy,
  • obstinacy,
  • overlooking,
  • pains,
  • passiveness,
  • passivity,
  • patient,
  • peace of mind,
  • permanence,
  • permanent,
  • permissiveness,
  • perplex,
  • persistency,
  • pertinacity,
  • philanthropy,
  • philosophy,
  • pious,
  • pique,
  • pity,
  • pliable,
  • plodding,
  • pluck,
  • pontoon,
  • pose,
  • preoccupation,
  • presence of mind,
  • provoke,
  • purposefulness,
  • put,
  • quadrille,
  • quietude,
  • relentlessness,
  • religious,
  • resentment,
  • resignation,
  • resigned,
  • resolution,
  • resolve,
  • restraint,
  • retirement,
  • reverse,
  • rile,
  • rubber,
  • ruffle,
  • sacred,
  • sacrosanct,
  • saintly,
  • sang-froid,
  • sedulity,
  • sedulousness,
  • self-control,
  • self-possession,
  • single-mindedness,
  • softness,
  • speculation,
  • stability,
  • starch,
  • steadiness,
  • sting,
  • stoicism,
  • stolidity,
  • strength,
  • stubbornness,
  • subdued,
  • submission,
  • submissive,
  • submissiveness,
  • sufferance,
  • suffering,
  • supple,
  • sympathy,
  • tame,
  • temperance,
  • tenaciousness,
  • tenderness,
  • tensile,
  • thirty-one,
  • thoughtfulness,
  • Three-card Monte,
  • tire,
  • tirelessness,
  • tolerance,
  • tolerant,
  • tolerate,
  • toleration,
  • tranquillity,
  • twenty-one,
  • uncertain,
  • understanding,
  • waiting game,
  • warmth,
  • weary,
  • wince,
  • yielding,
  • Allfours,
  • Ataraxy,
  • Enchafe,
  • Inexcitability,
  • Kind-heartedness,
  • Omber,
  • Pertinacy,
  • Picquet,
  • Plugging,
  • Quinze,
  • Reversis,
  • Vingtun,
  • legs,
  • Collectedness,
  • Supportance,
  • connections,
  • open-mindedness,
  • pairs,
  • obstinateness,
  • unflappability,
  • obdurateness,
  • bear with,
  • pertinaciousness,
  • restrain oneself,
  • good-heartedness,
  • intestinal fortitude,
  • stick-to-itiveness,
  • beggar-thy-neighbor,
  • Warm-heartedness,
  • approve of,
  • cool-headedness,
  • even temper,
  • tranquil mind,
  • give offense,
  • be impatient,
  • patientness,
  • send to sleep,
  • blind poker,
  • stick-to-it-iveness,
  • slogging,
  • squeezers,
  • card games.

Antonyms for Patience:

• n.

  • capacity, willingness to endure
    agitation, arousal, cowardice, fear, frustration, idleness, impatience, indifference, indolence, intolerance, laziness, lethargy, resistance, weakness, wildness.
  • Other antonyms:
    animosity, changeableness, choler, contrariness, defiance, disobedience, displeasure, exasperation, fickleness, fretfulness, fury, idleness, impatience, inattention, inconstancy, indignation, indolence, insubordination, intractability, ire, irritation, neglect, negligence, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, recalcitrance, remissness, resentment, resistance, sloth, temper, vexation, willfulness, wrath.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    agitation, arousal, contrariness, cowardice, defiance, disobedience, exasperation, excitement, fear, frustration, idleness, impatience, indifference, indolence, insubordination, intolerance, intractability, irresolution, irritation, laziness, lethargy, nervousness, passion, recalcitrance, resistance, restlessness, vacillation, weakness, wildness, willfulness.