Acute
Acute [1]
(1): (a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
(2): (a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; - opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
(3): (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; - opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
(4): (a.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; - opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
(5): (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.
(6): (a.) Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; - opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
