acute
Meaning of acute
adjective
- (of an unpleasant 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
- having or showing a perceptive understanding or insight; shrewd.
an acute awareness of changing fashions
- (of an angle) less than 90°.
- (of a sound) high; shrill.
noun
short for acute accent.
late Middle English (describing a disease or its symptoms): from Latin acutus, past participle of acuere ‘sharpen’, from acus ‘needle’.
Information about acute
- The plural form of acute is: acutes.
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Hyphenation of acute
acute
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- acute is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
acute synonyms
Meaning intense:
Meaning discriminating:
discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp
Meaning acuate:
Meaning acute accent:
Meaning (of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense:
Meaning (of a situation or problem) having the potential to become disastrous; at a point of crisis:
Meaning likely to have a strong or far-reaching effect; radical and extreme:
Meaning extremely serious or urgent:
Meaning causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious:
Meaning extremely bad or serious:
Meaning very bad or unpleasant:
Meaning a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound:
Meaning (of something causing pain, danger, or other unwelcome consequences) severe or serious:
Meaning significant or worrying because of possible danger or risk; not slight or negligible:
Meaning (of a state, quality, or emotion) very great or intense:
Meaning requiring immediate action or attention:
Meaning requiring quick or immediate action or attention:
Meaning feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with:
Meaning absolutely necessary; essential:
Meaning able or likely to cause harm or injury:
Meaning risky; dangerous:
Meaning full of danger or risk:
Meaning not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse:
Meaning full of danger or uncertainty; precarious:
Meaning outstandingly bad; shocking:
Meaning having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage:
Meaning having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute:
Meaning moving fast or doing something in a short time:
Meaning able to move quickly and easily:
Meaning quick and light in movement or action; agile:
Meaning (of a person) clever, original, and inventive:
Meaning showing skill and originality; ingenious:
Meaning having or showing intelligence, especially of a high level:
Meaning intelligent and quick-witted:
Meaning exceptionally clever or talented:
Meaning having or showing a quick-witted intelligence:
Meaning having or showing shrewdness and good judgement, especially in money or business matters:
Meaning using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive:
Meaning having or showing good judgement:
Meaning having or showing sensitive insight:
Meaning having a ready insight into and understanding of things:
Meaning having or showing an accurate and deep understanding; perceptive:
Meaning having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; wise or shrewd:
Meaning having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgement:
Meaning having, showing, or done with good judgement or sense:
Meaning having or showing intelligence:
Meaning having the experience and knowledge necessary to deal with the potential difficulties or dangers of life in an urban environment:
Meaning shrewd and knowledgeable; having common sense and good judgement:
Meaning shrewd and wary:
Meaning having a mocking or cynical sense of humour:
Meaning shrewd:
Meaning wise, or attempting to appear wise:
acute antonyms
Meaning so small or unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant:
Translation of acute
- French: urgent, aigu, subtil
- Italian: urgente, acuto, arguto
- Portuguese: urgente, agudo, arguto
- Spanish: urgente, apremiante, agudo, aguda
- German: dringend, dringlich, spitz, scharfsinnig, akut
Anagrams of acute
Words that rhyme with acute
cute, hyperacute, macute, nonacute, overacute, penacute, peracute, subacute, superacute, unacute, consecute, execute, misexecute, noexecute, overpersecute, persecute, preexecute, prosecute, reexecute, reprosecute, subsecute, fefnicute, jimpricute, publicute, incute, uncute, allocute, circumlocute, electrocute, elocute, supercute, Scute, discute, scute
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