All 4 Uses of
acute
in
Crime and Punishment
- This evening, however, on coming out into the street, he became acutely aware of his fears.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very acute angle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light.†
Chpt 4.4
- On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.†
Chpt 4.4 *
- There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space."†
Chpt 5.5
Definitions:
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(acute angle as in: an acute angle) ending in a narrow point or angle; or describing an angle measuring less than 90 degrees
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(acute as in: acute pain) sharp (severe or strong) -- usually negative