Question

Give the correct antonym of:
Patient
a. Impatient
b. Tolerance
c. Restrain
d. Endurance

Answer 1

Hint: Antonyms are words which have meanings opposite to each other. The antonym of hot is cold. Antonyms and synonyms are found in a book called the thesaurus.

Complete answer:
Let us look at the given word in the sentence. It is ‘patient’. Patient is an adjective. It is a quality and intangible in nature. A patient person is someone who can wait for a long time for something.

I patiently waited for my turn at the counter. I had to wait with a lot of patience in a long queue in the bank. I am patient with my students. All these sentences imply that the person had to wait for some time or a long time to get something.

The opposite of this is a person who cannot wait. I do not have enough patience to stand in a long queue at the ticket counter. Such a person is termed as impatient. Impatient people are always in a hurry to get what they want. They want the thing quickly. Thus, the correct option is option a.

Options b and d are wrong because ‘tolerance’ and ‘endurance’ mean someone who can bear something for a long time. They are synonymous to someone who is patient.

Option c, restrain, means to control your urge to do something. For example, you restrained yourself from eating the chocolate cake since you are on a diet. This is not an antonym of patience.

Note: Not all antonyms have the suffix im- or un- them. Only some words have them such as patient-impatient, follow-unfollow, faithful-unfaithful, etc. It is advised to learn antonyms from thesaurus.