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3 meanings

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1 —as in:
acute pain

Definition

sharp (severe or strong) — usually negative

She felt an acute pain in her neck.

acute = sharp (severe or very bad)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

I am acutely aware of the problem.

acutely = very

She had acute appendicitis.

acute = very bad

I felt acute annoyance.

acute = severely negative

We're facing an acute lack of research funds.

acute = severely negative

He suffers acutely on the way.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

acutely = severely

We should suffer acutely if we were confined in a narrower space.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

acutely = severely

She realized that she could move her fingers and toes with comparative freedom, and the pain was no longer so acute.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

acute = severe (bad)

There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute in that moment.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

acute = severe

There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

acute = severely negative

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2 —as in:
acute sense of smell

Definition

sharp (highly perceptive in some area or mentally sharp)

Dogs have an acute sense of smell.

acute = excellent (highly perceptive)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

That is an acute observation.

acute = sharp (astute or smart)

Birds tend to have acute vision.

acute = sharp (highly perceptive)

Beavers have poor eyesight, but an acute sense of smell.

acute = very good

And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

acutely = highly

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda.
George Orwell -- 1984

acute = intelligent (sharp or perceptive)

He was conscious of the judge's acute logical brain.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

acute = sharp and perceptive

But she said it with a hesitation that did not escape the acuteness of the child.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

acuteness = intelligence (sharpness or high perceptiveness)

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

Lucy is so sweet and sensitive that she feels influences more acutely than other people do.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

acutely = sharply (with more awareness)

My interest grew more acute with every deadening hour in the junkyard, until one day I had a bizarre thought: that I should enroll in the public school.
Tara Westover -- Educated

acute = strongly felt

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3 —as in:
an acute angle

Definition

ending in a narrow point or angle; or describing an angle measuring less than 90 degrees

Roofs at acute angles are common in snow country.

acute angles = sharp (pointed)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

All the angles of that triangle are acute.

acute = less than 90 degrees

She kept her foot permanently on the accelerator, and took every corner at an acute angle.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

acute angle = sharp

Two long panes of chest-high, dirty, gray-tinted Plexiglas lean against each other at an acute angle, held up on the other side by the wooden wall.
John Green -- Paper Towns
All I saw was the pole, bent at an acute angle.
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
O'Dell leaned back at an acute angle and shoveled a little sugar in.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
He has just cut off the end of the pole at an acute angle to make it into a spear.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
I was all bony elbows and acute angles, like a jigsaw puzzle piece that can only go in the middle, waiting for the others to fit around it to make it whole.
Sarah Dessen -- That Summer

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