Careful Words

patiently (adv.)

  • assiduously
  • devotedly
  • diligently
  • doggedly
  • enduringly
  • faithfully
  • indefatigably
  • indulgently
  • industriously
  • insistently
  • leniently
  • loyally
  • perseveringly
  • persistently
  • pertinaciously
  • philosophically
  • ploddingly
  • relentlessly
  • resolutely
  • sedulously
  • stoically
  • tenaciously
  • tirelessly
  • tolerantly
  • unfalteringly
  • uninterruptedly
  • unrelentingly
  • unswervingly
  • unwaveringly

For there was never yet philosopher

That could endure the toothache patiently.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.