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Definition of Acute

Acute Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf. Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning. Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure. High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent. Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much. Related Definitions: Accent, Acting, Acute, An, And, Angle, As, At, Attended, Blunt, Chronic, Clever, Coming, Crisis, Degree, Discernment, Disease, Dull, End, Ending, Eyesight, Feeling, Give, Grave, Having, He, Hearing, High, His, In, Inflection, Intense, Keen, Keenly, Leaf, Low, Man, Minute, Much, Nice, Observer, Obtuse, Of, On, Opposed, Or, Other, Pain, Penetrating, Perceiving, Pleasure, Point, Pointed, Quick, Reasoning, Respect, Rising, Sensibility, Severity, Sharp, Shrewd, Shrill, Slight, Some, Sound, Speedily, Stupid, Susceptible, The, To, Tone, Too, Using, With

Acute Quotations Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Friedrich Nietzsche There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Robert A. Heinlein What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. Georg C. Lichtenberg The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors. Lili Taylor

Acute Translations acute in Dutch is scherp, acuut, helder, voorbijgaand acute in German is scharf, intensiv acute in Italian is nitido, intensivo acute in Portuguese is agudo acute in Spanish is acre, intenso acute in Swedish is akut, spetsig

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