Acute

Definition: Acute

Acute

Adjective

1. (medicine) having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients.

2. Extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning".

3. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations".

4. Of an angle; less than 90 degrees.

5. Ending in a sharp point.

6. Of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds".

Noun

1. A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation.

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Date "acute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Health

Science

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ACUTE

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Synonyms: Acute

Angularity

Right angle; (perpendicular) a; obliquity; angle of x, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle.

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Feeling

Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.

Intelligence Wisdom

Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute.

Pain

Sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic, pyrotic.

Physical Energy

Adjective: strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.

Physical Sensibility

Acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.

Sharpness

Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred.

Violence

Adjective: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.

Crosswords: Acute

It would serve you right if you had an acute attack of indigestion (Charlotte's Web; writing credit: E.B. White; Earl Hamner Jr.)

But rather, acute angina (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Do you want an acute case on your hands (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; writing credit: Leonard Nimoy; Harve Bennett)

This woman has acute post-prandial upper abdominal distension (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; writing credit: Leonard Nimoy; Harve Bennett)

It said he suffers from, um, oh! acute paranoia (Holes; writing credit: Louis Sachar)

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References

• The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia (reference)

• The World Market for Fabrics of Layers of Parallel Synthetic Filament Yarns, Superimposed on Each Other at Acute or Right Angles with Their Layers Bonded: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Acute Renal Insufficiency Made Ridiculously Simple (MedMaster Series, 2000 Edition) (reference)

• Evidence-Based Acute Medicine (reference)

• The 12-Lead ECG: In Acute Myocardial Infarction (reference)

• The Radiology of Acute Cervical Spine Trauma (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Acute Care Perspectives (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dealing with Acute Low Back Pain (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Peter Herborn's Acute Insights (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Shown are various shots of two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) receiving chemotherapy. The girl on the left has an IV tube in the neck, the other girl's IV is in her arm. They are sitting on a bed and are demonstrating some of the procedures and techniques used with chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Legionnaire's disease is an acute and sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by the Legionella pneumophila bacterium. Headache, high fever, cough, and flu-like symptoms accompany the condition. Credit: CDC.

This photomicrograph of N. gonorrhoeae, a gonococcus, is from a urethral discharge specimen in a case of acute gonorrhoeae. Gonorrhea is second only to chlamydial infections in the number of cases reported to the CDC. Credit: CDC.

Epidemic curve for 54 symptomatic cases of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in members of a wagon train. Bar graph. Am J Med 71:759. Credit: CDC.

Symptoms of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis. Table. Am J Med 71:759. Credit: CDC.

Computed tomography scan of lungs showing classic snowstorm appearance of acute histoplasmosis. Credit: CDC.

Map showing isolation of poliovirus serotypes from acute flaccid paralysis cases--Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1999. Credit: CDC.

Transfer of virus solution, in this case an acute hemorrhagic fever pathogen, within a containment cabinet in maximum containment laboratory. Credit: CDC.

The poliovirus lives in the human pharynx and intestinal tract. Poliomyelitis is an acute infection that involves the gastrointestinal tract and, occasionally, the central nervous system. It is acquired by fecal-oral transmission. Credit: CDC.

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Germany, in conformity with the action already taken by the Allied and Associated Powers, recognises the complete independence of Poland, and renounces in her favour all rights and title over the territory bounded by the Baltic Sea, the eastern frontier of Germany as laid down in Article 27 of Part II (Boundaries of Germany) of the present Treaty up to a point situated about 2 kilometres to the east of Lorzendorf, then a line to the acute angle which the northern boundary of Upper Silesia makes about 3 kilometres north-west of Simmenau, then the boundary of Upper Silesia to its meeting point with the old frontier between Germany and Russia, then this frontier to the point where it crosses the course of the Niemen, and then the northern frontier of East Prussia as laid down in Article 28 of Part II aforesaid. (reference)

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The limit of perceptible acute sounds may be passed quite as easily for the mind as for the ear.

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Health

Acute often means urgent. (references)

An acute disease happens suddenly. (references)

Diarrhea can be either acute or chronic. (references)

Business

The need for education and training (“E&T”) services in Vietnam is acute. (references)

Moroccan air pollution is an acute issue and listed as the second priority after water resources. (references)

Intellectual property right protection and software piracy remain particularly acute problems in China. (references)

Children

Cameroon

Lack of facilities and care for persons with mental disabilities is particularly acute. (references)

Cameroon

This problem, which was especially acute in rural areas, results in higher levels of illiteracy among women than among men. (references)

China

The Maternal and Child Health Care Law forbids the marriage of persons with certain specified contagious diseases or certain acute mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

This dilemma is particularly acute when discussing abortion. (references)

Russia

After a dispute between two doctors regarding her fitness for transfer to the pretrial detention center, she was taken to the city hospital and treated for acute hypertension and heart ailments. (references)

Colombia

The ICRC provided emergency assistance to 125,000 displaced persons during the year, compared with 135,000 in 2000. On August 31, Kofi Asomani, the U.N. Special Coordinator on Internal Displacement, stated that the country is facing an acute problem of displacement. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Colombia is seeking to overcome its acute national crisis. (references)

Greece

The problem is most acute in the area of government procurement. (references)

Norway

Telemedicine is seen as an important part of future acute medical care. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Health concerns became more acute when at least one youth tested positive for tuberculosis. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

Competition for land and resources remains acute in Sumatra. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

Acute power shortages are forcing several states to adopt market pricing for electricity, although progress in this area has been slow. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Violent crime, practiced by persons in police and military uniforms, as well as by ordinary criminals, is an acute problem. (references)

Women

Botswana

Discrimination against women is most acute in rural areas where women engaged primarily in subsistence agriculture have weak property rights. (references)

Worker Rights

Zambia

Acute family poverty levels and economic factors contribute to child labor. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "acute": acute abdomen ♦ acute accent ♦ acute alcoholism ♦ Acute angle ♦ acute anterior poliomyelitis ♦ acute brain disorder ♦ Acute Disease ♦ acute dose ♦ acute effect ♦ acute exposure ♦ acute eyesight ♦ acute gastritis ♦ acute glaucoma ♦ acute glossitis ♦ acute hemorrhagic encephalitis ♦ Acute Hepatitis ♦ acute HIV infection ♦ acute inclusion body encephalitis ♦ acute injury ♦ acute irradiation ♦ acute kidney failure ♦ acute leukemia ♦ acute lymphoblastic leukemia ♦ acute lymphocytic leukemia ♦ acute myelocytic leukemia ♦ acute myelogenous leukemia ♦ acute myeloid leukemia ♦ acute nonlymphocytic leukemia ♦ acute organic brain syndrome ♦ acute pain ♦ acute pyelonephritis ♦ acute radiation dose ♦ acute rejection ♦ acute renal ♦ acute renal failure ♦ acute schizophrenic episode ♦ acute shortage ♦ acute sight ♦ acute sound ♦ acute toxicity ♦ Acute Toxicity Tests ♦ acute triangle ♦ acute tubular ♦ acute yellow liver atrophy. Additional references.

Beginning with "acute": Acute-angled, acute-angled angular, acute-angled triangle, acute-angular, acute-on-chronic, acute-phase, Acute-Phase Proteins, Acute-Phase Reaction, acute-service.

Ending with "acute": non-acute, post-acute.

Afrikaans

skerp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp), intens (intense, intensive). (various references)

Albanian

therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, keen, nippy, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, stinging, trenchant), mendjemprehtë (cute, nimble, penetrating, perspicacious, quick-witted, sharp-witted, shrewd, witty), i thekshëm (penetrating, sharp, tart), i ngushtë (bigheaded, close, close-grained, hard up, incapacious, intimate, narrow, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, petty, poky, provincial, small, small minded, Strait, tight), i mprehtë (astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فطين, ‏فطن (astute, clever, discern, discerning, keen, sagacious, shrewd, smart, sober up), ‏مبرح (anguish, sharp), ‏قوي (able bodied, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), ‏عصيب (critical, crucial), ‏ذكي (agile, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, natty, penetrating, quick, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty), ‏خطير (critical, dangerous, eventful, grave, grievous, hazardous, heavy, important, irresistible, momentous, redoubtable, risky, risque, serious, severe, significant, ticklish, unsafe, weighty), ‏ثاقب (boring, hand drill, keen, penetrating, perforator, piercing, sagacious, sharp), ‏شديد (biting, boisterous, brusque, cordial, crass, dense, excruciating, extreme, forte, intense, intensive, keen, lusty, rigorous, shrill, stern, strong, telling, tempestuous, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съобразителен (clearheaded, cute, flexible, peart, resourceful, tricky, wide awake), силен (athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), хитър (arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), тънък (cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, nice, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), с остро ударение, остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), акутен, проницателен (argus-eyed, astute, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, long-headed, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, piercing, profound, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd, wise), пронизителен (argute, keen, penetrating, piercing, piping, screamy, shrill), интензивен (intense, intensive, keen). (various references)

Catalan

agut (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Chinese 

銳 (destroy, overthrow), 聰 (clever, intelligent, quick at hearing, sharp-witted, wise), 劇烈 (fierce, severe, violent), 深刻 (Profound, trenchant), 激烈 (fierce, intense). (various references)

Czech

akutní (immediate, imminent, urgent), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), náhlý (abrupt, precipitous, rude, sudden, surprise), kritický (critical, crucial, discerning, discriminating), intenzivnì (heavily, violently), bystrý (alert, astute, bright, discerning, exquisite, keen, keen-witted, nimble, penetrating, perspicacious, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, subtle). (various references)

Danish

akut (severe). (various references)

Dutch

acuut, scherp (abrasive, accurate, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, bleak, exactly, harsh, lurid, nutty, precise, sharp, sour, tart), helder (bright, clean, clear, clearly, distinct, light, obvious, plain, pure, serene, untroubled). (various references)

Esperanto

akuta. (various references)

Faeroese

sterkur (firm, intense, intensive, robust, strong, sturdy, vigorous), sniðfundigur (astute, clever, cunning, shrewd, sly, smart), listilærdur (astute, shrewd), hvassur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp), gløggur (abstemious, astute, intelligent, sagacious, shrewd, sober, staid, temperate). (various references)

Farsi 

نوک تیز (Picked, Pungent, Rack, Taper), حساس (Alive, Delicate, Exquisite, Sensitive, Sensory, Stark, Susceptible, Techy, Tender, Ticklish, Touchy, Vigilant), حاد (Hot, Keen, Torrid), تیزنظر, تیزرو, تیز (Bitter, Brisk, Caustic, Glassy, Hot, Incisive, Keen, Pike, Poignant, Pointy, Pungent, Sharp, Shrill, Trenchant), زیرک (Adroit, Agile, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), زیر (Beneath, Bottom, Nether, Sole, Sub, Under), بحرانی (Climacteric, Critical). (various references)

Finnish

ankara (hard, intense, rigourous, severe, sharp, stern, strict, stringent, strong, vehement, violent), akuutti sairastuminen, akuutti altistuminen, voimakas (forcible, intense, intensive, mighty, powerful, strong, substantial, vigorous), teräväpäinen (brainy, clever, intelligent, shrewd), teräväjärkinen (astute, keen- witted), terävä (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, keen, lurid, sharp), äkillisluontoinen, äkillinen (abrupt, hasty, precipitate, sudden). (various references)

French

aigu (acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious), sagace. (various references)

Frisian

skerp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp), hommels opkommend, driuwend, bitsich (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp). (various references)

German

akut (pressing, urgent), scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), intensiv (acutely, intense, intensely, intensive, intensively, intent, powerful, strong), heftig (ardent, bitter, boisterous, boisterously, bold, burning, cordial, driving, ferocious, fierce, furious, hotly, impetuous, impetuously, intemperate, intense, irascible, keen, lashing, passionate, profuse, profusely, quick, raging, severe, severely, sharp, splitting, stormy, strongly, tempestuous, tempestuously, testily, uproarious, vehement, vehemently, vigorous, violent, violently, volcanic, warm, wild). (various references)

Greek 

οξύς (acid). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפולפל (fancy, peppery, spicy, subtle, tricky, witty), מחו�"�" (edged, edgy, pointed, sharp, taper), ח�" (biting, keen, mordant, pointed, sharp), חריף מוח (biting, keen, sharp, sharpwitted, witty). (various references)

Hungarian

heveny (eager, sore, virulent), hegyes (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, edgy, fine, hilly, keen, lurid, mountainous, peaky, poignant, pointed, pointy, rangy, sharp, sharp-edged, spiked, spiky, tapering), akut, éles (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, clangorous, crispy, cutting, edgy, harsh, have a keen edge, high pitched, incisive, keen, live, lurid, nipping, nippy, penetrating, perspicacious, plucky, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, reedy, rough, sarky, sharp, sharp-edged, shrewd, shrill, slashing, snap, squall, strident, to highlight, trenchant). (various references)

Icelandic

skarpur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp), leiftandi (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp), hrjúfur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp), bráður, beittur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Indonesian

akut (critical), tajam (acrid, acrimonious, brisk, edgy, incisive, keen, nippy, poignant), parah. (various references)

Italian

acuto (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, cute, discerning, discriminating, high, high note, high pitched, incisive, intense, keen, lancinating, lurid, nasty, neat, penetrating, piercing, piping, poignant, pointed, severe, sharp, shrewd, shrill). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

痛切　 (keen), 痛切 (keen), 急性 , 先鋭 (radical, sharp), 尖鋭 (radical, sharp), 切実 (compelling, earnest, pressing, serious, severe, urgent), 切 (ardent, cut, eager, earnest, keen, kind). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうせい (astrology, former home, former make, former manufacture, horoscope, old home, old nest, old order, old system, one's formername, salvation, sudden death), つうせつ (common opinion, keen, prevailing view), せつじつ (compelling, earnest, pressing, serious, severe, urgent), せつ (ardent, eager, earnest, filthy, keen, kind, node, occasion, section, temple, theory, time), せ�"えい (clear, radical, sharp, signs of a ship). (various references)

Korean 

예민한. (various references)

Manx

kioot (astute, canny, clever, crafty, fly, foxy, intelligent, keen-witted, quick-witted, shrewd, smart, wily), geyre (abrupt, acrid, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, high-pitched, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick of sight, sharp, sour, stiff, strict, stringent, twinging). (various references)

Norwegian

skarp (keen), gløgg (astute). (various references)

Papiamen

intenso (intense, intensive). (various references)

Pig Latin

acuteay.(various references)

Polish

ostry (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, severe, sharp, strict). (various references)

Portuguese

agudo (acerbic, argute, brazen, clear-sighted, incisive, keen, out-and-out, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, poignant, pungent, sharp, shrill, smart, treble, trenchant). (various references)

Romanian

ascuţit (argute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high, high pitched, keen, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, peaked, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, pungent, quick, screaming, sharp, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty), ager (active, agile, clever, cute, fast, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, quick, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited, understanding), acut (acutely, intense, keen, shrewd, violent), violent (bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), subtil (delicate, fine, fine-spun, insidious, nice, refined, sagacious, shrewd, subtle, subtly, tenuous), stringent (acutely, stringent, urgent, urgently), sagace (discerning, sagacious), puternic (ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), pronunţat (broad, marked, pronounced, strong, well-marked), perspicace (argute, perspicacious, perspicaciously, ready-witted, sagacious, shrewd, understanding), pãtrunzãtor (astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, Parky, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, screaming, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), şmecher (arch, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, leery, sharp, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy). (various references)

Russian 

сообразительный (bright, gumptious, keen-witted, nimble, peart, quick, quick-witted, ready made, ready-witted, sagacious, smart, spry), резкий (abrupt, acrid, bitter, bluffy, brusque, crusty, curt, harsh, incisive, jarring, keen, loud, pipy, rough, rude, screechy, sharp, short, shrewd, strident, tart), острый (acrid, argute, arrowy, biting, bristling, eager, edgy, hot, incisive, keen, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, sharp, smart, tangy, trenchant, zappy), пронзительный (argute, keen, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piping, pipy, reedy, sharp, shrill, shrilly), проницательный (as sharp as a needle, astute, clear-sighted, discerning, eagle-eyed, keen, long-headed, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, politic, prescient, sagacious, shrewd). (various references)

Scottish

geur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, lurid, sharp, sharp pointed, shrewd; acrid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

akutan, ostar, šiljat (crested, peaked, pointed, spiky). (various references)

Spanish

agudo (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, high, lurid, penetrating, piping, poignant, quick, quick-witted, raging, ready, searing, severe, sharp, sharp-witted, shrill), violento (abrupt, blustering, boisterous, forced, harsh, intense, intensive, raging, rude, savage, severe, sharp, towering, ugly, violent, wild), fulminante (fulminant, fulminating, primer). (various references)

Sranan

srapu (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp, sharpen). (various references)

Swahili

-kali (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, hot, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Swedish

akut (acuate), spetsig (peaked, peaky, pointed, sharp, spiky), skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acuate, bitter, caustic, cutting, discriminative, discriminatory, edgy, emphatic, fulminant, glaring, hot, in focus, incisive, keen, lurid, penetrating, perceptive, pungent, quick, salty, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing, smart). (various references)

Tagalog

matúlis (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp), matálas (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Turkish

akut, aşırı (beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), sivri (beaked, edged, jagged, nipping, pointed, pungent, sharp, sharp pointed, spinose, spinous, spired, spiry), keskin (acrid, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), ilerlemiş (advanced, forward, gone, improved, onward, past cure), dar (clinging, close fitting, close-bodied, constricted, exiguous, narrow, narrowly, parochial, poky, restrained, snug, Strait, stringent, tight), şiddetli (astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent). (various references)

Ukrainian

сильний (athletic, bad, bitter, bull, cordial, deep, driving, nervous, nervy, penetrating, potent, powerful, punchy, quick, sharp, smart, spanking, strong, swingeing, vehement, vigorous), різкий (abrupt, acerbic, acrid, argute, bluffy, brief, brusque, curt, harsh, nippy, point blank, raucous, snappish, stark, trenchant, vehement, violent), тонкий (capillary, gauzy, nice, sleazy, slim, soft, spidery, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin), кмітливий (alert, apprehensive, clever, cute, dexterous, grasping, intelligent, nimble, nimble-witted, quick, ready-witted, sagacious), гострий (abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, argute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, incisive, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful), проникливий (astute, cute, discerning, eagle-eyed, gleg, penetrative, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, profound, quick-sighted, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd), пронизливий (argute, brazen, cutting, keen, penetrating, piercing, piping, screaming, searching, shrill, stabbing, thrilling). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh (essential, exquisite, unmixed), thính buốt, sắc sảo; nhạy, sắc bén (trenchant), sắc (colour, keen, quick, sharp-edged), kịch liệt (cutthroat, orgastic, slashing, vehement, violently), gay gắc. (various references)

Welsh

awchlym (keen, sharp), tost (austere, bitter, ill, severe, sharp, sick, sore), llym (austere, keen, severe, sharp), craff (astute, close, grip, hold, keen, sagacious). (various references)

Yucatec

yeh (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, lurid, sharp). (various references)

actus, acuta, acutae, acutam, acuti, acutum, acutus, argutus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "acute": acutely, acuteness, acutenesses, acuter, acutes, acutest. (additional references)

Words ending with "acute": hyperacute, subacute. (additional references)

Words containing "acute": subacutely. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Acute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abuti, acarte, acat, Accu, accuate, accute, aceite, acetu, acht, achute, acit, acite, Ackte, Acorte, Acot, acoted, Acott, acta, acte, actea, Actel, actem, acten, actu, actua, acu, acue, acuem, Acugen, aculei, acult, acume, acure, acutes, acutus, acyt, aduti, ajute, Akcije, Akoto, Akue, alcote, aluet, anute, arcuata, Arcutt, arute, astuce, Aucbe, Aucctu, aucune, auta, Autel, autem, Auten, Auti, Ayut, caduto, cauti, cauty, dacite, Eccoti, hacucho, Hakuta, icate, Icut, Jakutia, Macpuke, makuti, Uchte, Zakuti. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cate, cute, tace.

-2 letters: ace, act, ate, cat, cue, cut, eat, eau, ecu, eta, tae, tau, tea, uta.

-3 letters: ae, at, et, ta, ut.

+1 letter: acetum, acuate, acuter, acutes, coteau, cuesta, curate, faucet, teacup.

+2 letters: acetous, acquest, actuate, acutely, acutest, arcuate, auxetic, caestus, cajeput, calumet, capture, catechu, caudate, cautery, centaur, chateau, coteaus, coteaux, couteau, cuestas, cuneate, curated, curates, curtate, cuspate, cuttage, educate, eustacy, facture, faucets, furcate, nutcase, outface, outpace, outrace, racquet, scutage, scutate, sulcate, teacups, traduce, tunicae, unacted, uncrate, unteach.