All 8 Uses of
acute
in
Mansfield Park
- Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to.
Chpt 2acute = severely negative
- ...a reproof, which he felt at his heart. Not less acutely was it felt by Fanny, who had edged back her chair behind her aunt's end of the sofa, and, screened from notice herself, saw all that was passing before her.
Chpt 19 *acutely = sharply (in a severely negative way)
- Mr. Yates felt it as acutely as might be supposed. To be a second time disappointed in the same way was an instance of very severe ill-luck; and his indignation was such, that had it not been for delicacy towards his friend, and his friend's youngest sister, he believed he should certainly attack the baronet on the absurdity of his proceedings, and argue him into a little more rationality.
Chpt 20acutely = severely (of a negative event)
- A few moments of feverish enjoyment were followed by hours of acute suffering.
Chpt 20acute = severely negative
- Her feelings, probably, were not acute; he had never supposed them to be so; but her comforts might not be less on that account; and if she could dispense with seeing her husband a leading, shining character, there would certainly be everything else in her favour.
Chpt 21acute = strong
- More was not expected by one who, while seeing all the obligation and expediency of submission and forbearance, saw also with sympathetic acuteness of feeling all that must be hourly grating to a girl like Susan.
Chpt 40acuteness = severely negative
- Her affections were not acute, nor was her mind tenacious.
Chpt 47acute = strong
- [of Sir Thomas] Fanny felt for him most acutely. He could have no comfort but in Edmund. Every other child must be racking his heart.
Chpt 47acutely = severely (of a negative event)
Definition:
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(acute as in: acute pain) sharp (severe or strong) -- usually negative