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Acute
ACU'TE, a. [L. acutus, sharp-pointed; Heb.]
1. Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; opposed to blunt or obtuse. An acute angle in geometry, is one which is less than a right angle, or which subtends less than ninety degrees. An acute angled triangle is one whose three angles are all acute, or less than ninety degrees each.
2. Figuratively, applied to mental powers; penetrating; having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; opposed to dull or stupid; as an acute reasoner.
3. Applied to the senses; having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible of slight impressions; having power to feel or perceive small objects; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling.
4. An acute disease, is one which is attended with violent symptoms, and comes speedily to a crisis, as a pleurisy; opposed to chronic.
5. An acute disease, is one which is attended with violent symptoms, and comes speedily to a crisis, as a pleurisy; opposed to chronic.
6. In music, acute is applied to a tone which is sharp, or high; opposed to grave.
7. In botany, ending in an acute angle, as a leaf or perianth.
acute appears in definitions for these words:
Acantha Accent Acute Acuteness Ailment Anacamptic Anatase Angle Arguteness Ascend Ascending Bevel Blood-hound Brighten Brightness Chondrodite Chronic Circumflex Clarion Clear Clear-sighted Clear-sightedness Copland Crichtonite Dainty Decussate Decussating Delicacy Descend Descent Discerning Discerningly Discernment Eagle-eyed Eagle-sighted Elevate Elevated Elevation Fine Flat Flatness Flatten Gore Grave-stone Harmonics Harrier Hawkeyed High Highness Hoe Hyperoxyd Ingenuity Interval Ionic Keenness Lozenge Oblike Obtuse Oxygon Oxytone Paten Penetrating Penetration Penetrative Peripneumony Perspicacious Perspicaciousness Perspicacity Perspicacy Phrenitis Plague Poignancy Poignant Point Quick-sighted Quickening Quickness Quickscented Refracted Rhoetizite Runcinate Sagacious Sagaciousness Sagacity Sagittate Screech Sense Sensibility Sensible Sensibleness Sharp Sharp-sighted Sharp-witted Sharpen Sharply Sharpness Shrill Shrillness Shrilly Sighted Smart Smell Squeak Sting Stinger Stitch Subtil Subtilization Subtilness Subtilty Sythe Tension Thickness Thunder Tone Treble Triangle Unison Unisonant Vibration Vision Volume Whitlow
Acantha Accent Acute Acuteness Ailment Anacamptic Anatase Angle Arguteness Ascend Ascending Bevel Blood-hound Brighten Brightness Chondrodite Chronic Circumflex Clarion Clear Clear-sighted Clear-sightedness Copland Crichtonite Dainty Decussate Decussating Delicacy Descend Descent Discerning Discerningly Discernment Eagle-eyed Eagle-sighted Elevate Elevated Elevation Fine Flat Flatness Flatten Gore Grave-stone Harmonics Harrier Hawkeyed High Highness Hoe Hyperoxyd Ingenuity Interval Ionic Keenness Lozenge Oblike Obtuse Oxygon Oxytone Paten Penetrating Penetration Penetrative Peripneumony Perspicacious Perspicaciousness Perspicacity Perspicacy Phrenitis Plague Poignancy Poignant Point Quick-sighted Quickening Quickness Quickscented Refracted Rhoetizite Runcinate Sagacious Sagaciousness Sagacity Sagittate Screech Sense Sensibility Sensible Sensibleness Sharp Sharp-sighted Sharp-witted Sharpen Sharply Sharpness Shrill Shrillness Shrilly Sighted Smart Smell Squeak Sting Stinger Stitch Subtil Subtilization Subtilness Subtilty Sythe Tension Thickness Thunder Tone Treble Triangle Unison Unisonant Vibration Vision Volume Whitlow
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