patient
 pa·tient (pāʹshənt)adj.
1. Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness.
2. Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.
3. Tolerant; understanding:
an unfailingly patient leader and guide.
4. Persevering; constant:
With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
5. Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
6. Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance: “My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries” (Laurence Sterne). n.
1. One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
2. Linguistics. A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.
3. Archaic. One who suffers. [Middle English pacient, from Old French, from Latin patiēns, patient- present participle of patī, to endure. See pē(i)- in Indo-European Roots.] paʹtient·ly adv.
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