Clues for the word "PATIENCE"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 61 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on January 24, 2026.
Definition of patience
- n. - The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
- n. - The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
- n. - Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
- n. - Sufferance; permission.
- n. - A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
- n. - Solitaire.
Referring Clues
- 1881 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
- It's a virtue
- Steady perserverance
- It's considered "a virtue"
- It's a virtue, so they say
- Forbearance
- *Lose it
- Necessity when dealing with pests
- Willingness to wait
- Job's quality
- Quip for those tired of waiting (Part 2)
- Tolerance
- Card game
- Virtuous trait
- It's been called a virtue
- Coins brought round at one for game
- Certain virtue
- Virtuous card game?
- Card game - virtue
- Waiting without complaint, head accepts nice break
- Game one plays that's said to be virtuous
- Broadcast treated people as an operatic creation
- A woman's resignation
- G & S' alternative for "Bunthorne"s Bride"
- Sole diversion at island welcomed by coppers
- Change around a short clue for the card game
- Virtue - solitaire
- 1881 Gilbert and Sullivan opera
- Card came for one
- Show forbearance
- Virtue is a solitary pastime
- Gilbert and Sullivan opera
- Card game was loved by 17
- Game one plays in satire on aesthetic movement
- Light musical work only one person can play
- Solitaire, in Sussex
- Card game played in the theatre?
- Game for milkmaid on monument
- People being treated, say, with forbearance
- A game girl
- Gilbert and Sullivan's girl
- Solo card game
- Join knight in step showing restraint
- Solitaire the opera
- People treated broadcast as a theatrical work
- One plays this G & S character
- At lunchtime, change clothes for game
- Endurance
- The virtue of a solo game
- Capacity to tolerate delay
- Long-term asset
- Saintly virtue
- Ambrose Bierce defined it as "A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue"
- Perseverance
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - January 24, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - October 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 03, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 22, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - February 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 12, 2022
- New York Times - October 03, 2021
- Penny Dell Daily - February 06, 2018
- Daily Cryptic - January 24, 2018
- Guardian Everyman - August 06, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - June 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - February 01, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - December 29, 2016
- Universal - December 05, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - September 01, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 17, 2016
- Guardian Prize - February 27, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - March 20, 2015
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - November 09, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - July 04, 2014
- Guardian Prize - April 26, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - January 08, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - November 08, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - January 04, 2013
- Universal - October 14, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - September 14, 2012
- Guardian Quick - May 19, 2012
- Family Time - February 05, 2012
- And in 31 more crossword puzzles...