Textual thesaurus for "acute"

(adj) intense

extremely sharp or intense

acute pain; felt acute annoyance; intense itching and burning

(adj) penetrating, penetrative, incisive, discriminating, piercing, keen, knifelike, 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

(adj) sharp, needlelike, acuate

ending in a sharp point

(noun) acute accent, ague

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