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Adjective acute has 6 senses
- acute - having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients"
Antonyms: chronic, degenerative, prolonged
- acute, intense - extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"
Antonym: dull (indirect, via sharp)
- acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp - 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"
Antonyms: unperceptive, unperceiving (indirect, via perceptive)
- acute - of an angle; less than 90 degrees
Antonym: obtuse
- acuate, acute, sharp, needlelike - ending in a sharp point
Antonyms: pointless, unpointed (indirect, via pointed)
- acute - of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds"
Antonyms: noncritical, noncrucial (indirect, via critical)
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