acute | | |
n. (communication) | 1. acute, acute accent, ague | a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation. |
| ~ accent mark, accent | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation. |
adj. | 2. acute | having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients" |
| ~ medical specialty, medicine | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques. |
| ~ subacute | less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it. |
adj. | 3. acute, intense | extremely sharp or intense.; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" |
| ~ sharp | keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point.; "a sharp pain"; "sharp winds" |
adj. | 4. acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp | 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" |
| ~ perceptive | having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment.; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation" |
adj. | 5. acute | of an angle; less than 90 degrees. |
adj. | 6. acuate, acute, needlelike, sharp | ending in a sharp point. |
| ~ pointed | having a point. |
adj. | 7. acute | of critical importance and consequence.; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds" |
| ~ critical | being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency.; "a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage" |
acute accent | | |
Recent comments
2 weeks 6 days ago
4 weeks 5 days ago
12 weeks 20 hours ago
14 weeks 5 days ago
16 weeks 23 hours ago
16 weeks 1 day ago
16 weeks 2 days ago
21 weeks 4 days ago
21 weeks 4 days ago
22 weeks 2 days ago