1. acute - Noun
2. acute - Adjective
3. acute - Verb
4. acute - Adjective Satellite
Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
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.
High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. Wallace Stevens
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. Lydia Maria Child
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. Arthur Balfour
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. William Lyon Phelps