acute
Brief, quick, short.
Example
“It was an acute event.”
Other meanings
High or shrill.
Intense; sensitive; sharp.
“She had an acute sense of honour”
Related words
- acutangular
- acutish
- hyperacute
- nonacute
- superacute
- unacute
- accent acute
- acute abdo
- acute abdomen
- acute angle
- acute cystitis
- acute flaccid myelitis
Word history
From Latin "acūta".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “acute” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.