Synonyms of the word

acute

• adj. Urgent.
• adj. Sensitive.
• adj. Short, quick, brief.
• adj. (geometry) Of an angle, less than 90 degrees.
• adj. (geometry) Of a triangle, having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
• adj. (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at a apex or base).
• adj. (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense…
• adj. (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply…
• adj. (orthography, after a letter) Having an acute accent.
• adj. High or shrill.
• n. (orthography) An acute accent.
• n. A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
• v. (phonetics) To give an acute sound to.

accent

• n. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in…
• n. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
• n. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent,…
• n. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic…
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular…
• n. (linguistics, sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does…
• n. A word; a significant tone or sound.
• n. (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
• n. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
• n. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third…
• n. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
• n. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
• n. (music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
• n. (music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
• n. (mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes…
• n. (geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in…
• n. (engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10, meaning six feet ten inches.
• n. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail…
• n. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
• n. A distinctive feature or quality.
• n. (archaic) Utterance.
• v. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
• v. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
• v. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

acuate

• adj. Sharpened; sharp-pointed.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.

ague

• n. (obsolete) An acute fever.
• n. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
• n. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever.
• n. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
• n. (obsolete) Malaria.
• v. (transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

critical

• adj. Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
• adj. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
• adj. Extremely important.
• adj. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
• adj. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition…
• adj. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
• adj. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes…
• n. A critical value, factor, etc.
• n. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

discriminating

• adj. Able to perceive fine distinctions between similar things; perceptive.
• adj. Having a discerning judgment or taste.
• v. present participle of discriminate.

incisive

• adj. Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.
• adj. Intelligently analytical and concise.
• adj. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; sharp; acute; sarcastic;…
• adj. (anatomy) Of or relating to the incisors.

intense

• adj. Strained; tightly drawn.
• adj. Strict, very close or earnest.
• adj. Extreme in degree; excessive.
• adj. Extreme in size or strength.
• adj. Stressful and tiring.
• adj. Very severe.

keen

• adj. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness…
• adj. Fierce, intense, vehement.
• adj. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
• adj. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
• adj. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
• adj. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
• adj. (Britain) Extremely low as to be competitive.
• adj. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
• adj. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
• v. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
• n. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
• v. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
• v. (transitive) To mourn.

knifelike

• adj. Resembling a knife or its effects.

needlelike

• adj. Resembling a needle in shape.

penetrating

• adj. able to pierce or penetrate.
• adj. demonstrating acute or keen understanding.
• v. present participle of penetrate.

penetrative

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or involving penetration.
• adj. Having the ability to penetrate.
• adj. Displaying insight or discrimination; acute.

perceptive

• adj. having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

piercing

• v. present participle of pierce.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to pierce.
• n. A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it.
• n. The jewelry itself.
• adj. Anything or anyone that pierces.

pointed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of point.
• adj. (comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
• adj. (not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
• adj. (comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic.

sharp

• adj. Able to cut easily.
• adj. (colloquial) Intelligent.
• adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
• adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
• adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
• adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
• adj. Sudden and intense.
• adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
• adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
• adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
• adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
• adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
• adj. Observant; alert; acute.
• adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
• adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
• adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
• adj. (chess) Tactical; risky.
• adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
• adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
• adj. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
• adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
• adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
• adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
• adv. (not comparable) Exactly.
• adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
• n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff…
• n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed…
• n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
• n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
• n. A sharp tool or weapon.
• n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
• n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
• n. A dishonest person; a cheater.
• n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
• n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
• n. (in the plural) middlings.
• n. (slang, dated) An expert.
• n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
• v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
• v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

subacute

• adj. (medicine) Less than acute.
• adj. (biology) Having a pointed tip, but with a broad or slightly rounded angle.
• n. (medicine) A patient whose condition is less than acute.