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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
acute/əˈkjuːt/
▶adjective
- 1 critical; serious: an acute housing shortage.
■ (of an illness) coming sharply to a crisis; severe.
Often contrasted with chronic.
- 2 perceptive; shrewd.
■ (of a physical sense or faculty) highly developed.
- 3 (of an angle) less than 90°.
- 4 (of a sound) high; shrill.
– derivatives
acutance noun,
acutely adverb,
acuteness noun.
acutance noun,
acutely adverb,
acuteness noun.
– origin ME: from L. acut-, acuere ‘sharpen’, from acus ‘needle’.
'acute' also found in these Oxford entries:
acuity
- acumen
- acuminate
- acute accent
- acute rheumatism
- ague
- ashlaring
- block plane
- cosecant
- cosine
- cotangent
- cute
- dengue
- diamond
- dog
- encephalomyelitis
- glomerulonephritis
- Guillain–Barré syndrome
- insulin shock
- keen
- Lassa fever
- Marburg disease
- milk fever
- necrotizing fasciitis
- Newcastle disease
- nostalgia
- oblique
- oxytone
- panic attack
- paroxytone
- perceptive
- pile
- plumbism
- quirk
- rheumatic fever
- rotavirus
- SARS
- secant
- shingles
- shin splints
- shock
- smallpox
- subacute
- toxic shock syndrome
- vincristine
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