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If you say that someone is a____ or has an acute mind, you mean that they are quick to notice things and are able to understand them clearly .If you say that someone is acute or has an acute mind, you mean that they are quick to notice things and are able to understand them clearly .Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful.His relaxed exterior hides an extremely acute mind.Everything he writes demonstrates the acuteness of his intelligence. adjectiveYou can use acute to indicate that an undesirable situation or feeling is very severe or intense.The war has aggravated an acute economic crisis.The report has caused acute embarrassment to the government.The labour shortage is becoming acute.An acute illness is one that becomes severe very quickly but does not last very long. Compare chronic ....a patient with acute rheumatoid arthritis....an acute case of dysentery.If a person's or animal's sight, hearing, or sense of smell is acute, it is sensitive and powerful .In the dark my sense of hearing becomes so acute.If you say that someone is acute or has an acute mind, you mean that they are quick to notice things and are able to understand them clearly .Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful.His relaxed exterior hides an extremely acute mind.Everything he writes demonstrates the acuteness of his intelligence.An acute angle is less than 90°. Compare obtuse angle.An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed . You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute . For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'. C1

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acute acuteness

query	If you say that someone is a____ or has an acute mind, you mean that they are quick to notice things and are able to understand them clearly .If you say that someone is acute or has an acute mind, you mean that they are quick to notice things and are able to understand them clearly . Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful. His relaxed exterior hides an extremely acute mind. Everything he writes demonstrates the acuteness of his intelligence.
word	acute
full-definition	adjective You can use acute to indicate that an undesirable situation or feeling is very severe or intense. The war has aggravated an acute economic crisis. The report has caused acute embarrassment to the government. The labour shortage is becoming acute. An acute illness is one that becomes severe very quickly but does not last very long. Compare chronic . ...a patient with acute rheumatoid arthritis. ...an acute case of dysentery. If a person's or animal's sight, hearing, or sense of smell is acute, it is sensitive and powerful . In the dark my sense of hearing becomes so acute. If you say that someone is acute or has an acute mind, you mean that they are quick to notice things and are able to understand them clearly . Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful. His relaxed exterior hides an extremely acute mind. Everything he writes demonstrates the acuteness of his intelligence. An acute angle is less than 90°. Compare obtuse angle. An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed . You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute . For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
inflections	acuteness
cefr-level	C1

Acute Mind Quick Notice Things Understand Acuteness Accent