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Adjective
/əˈkyo͞ot/,
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acute, comparative; acutest, superlative;
  1. (of a bad, difficult, or unwelcome situation or phenomenon) Present or experienced to a severe or intense degree
    • - an acute housing shortage
    • - the problem is acute and getting worse
  2. (of a disease or its symptoms) Of short duration but typically severe
    • - acute appendicitis
  3. Denoting or designed for patients with such conditions
    • - acute hospital services
    • - acute patients
  4. Having or showing a perceptive understanding or insight: shrewd
    • - an acute awareness of changing fashions
  5. (of a physical sense or faculty) Highly developed; keen
    • - an acute sense of smell
  6. (of an angle) Less than 90°

  7. Having a sharp end; pointed

  8. (of a sound) High; shrill

  1. having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients"
  2. acute accent: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
  3. extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"
  4. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
  5. of an angle; less than 90 degrees
  6. acuate: ending in a sharp point
  7. The acute accent (´) is a diacritical mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts.
  8. In medicine, an acute disease is a disease with either or both of: # a rapid onset, as in acute infection # a short course (as opposed to a chronic course).
  9. Phonemes can be described as grave from both an articulatory or acoustic perspective. In the articulatory perspective, "grave" refers to peripheral consonants and back vowels.
  10. (a-acute) is a letter of the Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Slovak and Sámi languages. This letter also appears in Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Lakota, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter “a”. Some writers use á incorrectly to denote a quantity, often used on receipts, eg. ...
  11. The Acute were an alternative Rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland who were formed in September 2004 by Stephen A. Cute (Guitar/Vocals), Ross Ramsay (Bass guitar), and Douglas McDonald (Drums).
  12. Symptoms that are severe and/or brief in duration.
  13. severe; sharp; begins quickly.
  14. sudden or severe. An acute condition is one in which symptoms appear, change, or worsen rapidly. The opposite of chronic.
  15. Acute is a word that describes symptoms that come on quickly, and are extremely severe or intense.
  16. Symptoms or signs that begin and worsen quickly; not chronic.
  17. describes something that happens suddenly and for a short time. Opposite of chronic.
  18. Sudden onset of symptoms.
  19. A sudden and severe condition
  20. Referring to symptoms of abrupt onset, often of marked severity or intensity.
  21. Sudden symptomatic onset, lasting no more than six weeks.
  22. Having a short and relatively severe course.
  23. Rapidly developing; severe; short duration.
  24. Of short duration and relatively severe.
  25. terminating in a distinct but not protracted point, the converging edges separated by an angle less than 90 degrees.