The quality of being acute or pointed / (of the senses or feelings) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness / Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.

plural of acuteness

Brief, quick, short. / High or shrill. / Intense, sensitive, sharp. / Urgent. / (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).

(medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. / (linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others. / (orthography) An acute accent (´).

(transitive, phonetics) To give an acute sound to. / (transitive, archaic) To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.

In an acute manner

present participle of acute

simple past tense and past participle of acute

(linguistics, possessional) Of a written word: exhibiting acute accent.

plural of acute