acuteadjective
uk/əˈkjuːt/us/əˈkjuːt/acute adjective (EXTREME)
If a bad situation is acute, it causes severe problems or damage:
An acute pain or illness is one that quickly becomes very severe:
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Serious and severe
- chronic
- critical
- critically
- desperate
- dire
- egregious
- gravity
- grievous
- heaviness
- heavy
- mortal
- serious
- seriously
- severely
- severity
- stiff
- stiffness
- swingeing
- terminal
- utmost
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acute adjective (ACCURATE/CLEVER)
used to describe intelligence, senses, etc. that are very good, accurate, and able to notice very small differences:
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Perceptive
- acutely
- alert
- antenna
- eagle eye
- eye
- gimlet
- have an eye for sth idiom
- have eyes in the back of your head idiom
- have gimlet eyes idiom
- have/keep (all) your wits about you idiom
- hawk-eyed
- insight
- observant
- perceptive
- percipient
- razor-sharp
- sharp
- sharp-eyed
- sharply
- wit
acute adjective (ANGLE)
An acute angle is less than 90 degrees.
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Geometry: describing angles, lines & orientations
- alternate angle
- angle of incidence
- antinode
- asymptote
- asymptotic
- axial
- erect
- horizontal
- oblique
- parallel
- plumb
- prominent
- reflection
- right angle
- secant
- slant
- supplementary angle
- tangent
- tangential
- transversal
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acutenoun [ C ]
uk/əˈkjuːt/us/əˈkjuːt/also acute accenta sign that is written above a letter in some languages, showing you how to pronounce the letter:
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Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- capitalize
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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