pa·tient (p??sh?nt)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. Obsolete One who suffers.[Middle English pacient, from Old French, from Latin pati?ns, patient-, present participle of pat?, to endure; see p?(i)- in Indo-European roots.]pa?tient·ly adv.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.patient (?pe???nt) adj1. enduring trying circumstances with even temper2. tolerant; understanding3. capable of accepting delay with equanimity4. persevering or diligent: a patient worker. 5. archaic admitting of a certain interpretationn6. (Medicine) a person who is receiving medical care7. rare a person or thing that is the recipient of some action[C14: see patience] ?patiently advCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014pa?tient (?pe? ??nt) n. 1. a person who is under medical care or treatment. 2. a person or thing that undergoes some action. adj. 3. bearing provocation, annoyance, pain, etc., without complaint or anger. 4. characterized by or expressing such a quality. 5. persevering or diligent; steady. 6. undergoing the action of another (opposed to agent). Idioms: patient of, a. able and willing to endure: patient of others’ mistakes. b. susceptible of. [1275?1325; Middle English pacient (adj. and n.)