Synonyms for Acute:

• adj.

  •acicular (adjective)
  • most needle shaped,
  • most acerate,
  • needleshaped,
  • needle-shaped,
  • more acerose,
  • most needleshaped,
  • acerate,
  • needle shaped,
  • more acerous,
  • Acerous,
  • most needle-shaped,
  • more acerate,
  • more needle shaped,
  • more needleshaped,
  • more needle-shaped,
  • most acerose,
  • most acerous,
  • acerose.
  •agile (adjective)
  • more bustling,
  • sportive,
  • easymoving,
  • more easymoving,
  • more acute,
  • fleet,
  • most bustling,
  • sprighter,
  • quick trigger,
  • mercurial,
  • most sportive,
  • most easy-moving,
  • quick the draw,
  • most easy moving,
  • more easy-moving,
  • more easy moving,
  • lithe,
  • sprightest,
  • limber,
  • most easymoving,
  • lively,
  • easy moving,
  • quick draw,
  • prompt,
  • quick the trigger,
  • quick on draw.
  •all (adjective)
  • acute.
  •bright (adjective)
  • Clear-headed,
  • wideawake,
  • having smarts,
  • eggheaded.
  •brilliant (adjective)
  • most knowledgeable,
  • more talented,
  • whippest,
  • most genius,
  • more genius.
  •burning (adjective)
  • instant,
  • importunate.
  •canny (adjective)
  • more careful,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • Worldlywise,
  • wisest,
  • heppest,
  • more nimble witted,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • foxy,
  • most streetwise,
  • street smart,
  • more streetwise,
  • slick,
  • most nimble-witted,
  • nimble witted,
  • nimblewitted,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • most nimble witted.
  •climactic/climacteric (adjective)
  • para mount,
  • peakest,
  • para-mount,
  • most climactical,
  • more climactical.
  •critical (adjective)
  • all-important,
  • risky,
  • climacteric,
  • high-priority,
  • pivotal,
  • Exceptive.
  •crucial (adjective)
  • more showdown,
  • more necessary,
  • most climatic,
  • touch go,
  • more climatic,
  • most showdown.
  •cunning (adjective)
  • fancy footwork,
  • crazy like fox,
  • sly boots.
  •cuspate (adjective)
  • more cusped,
  • cusplike,
  • more cusplike,
  • most cusplike,
  • cusped,
  • most cusped.
  •dainty (adjective)
  • finical,
  • most finicking,
  • re fined,
  • more finicking.
  •deep (adjective)
  • hermetic,
  • orphic,
  • hard to understand,
  • sibylline.
  •deeply perceptive (adjective)
  • discerning,
  • astute,
  • insightful,
  • smart,
  • observant,
  • clever,
  • ingenious,
  • subtle,
  • intuitive.
  •desperate (adjective)
  • vehement.
  •dexterous (adjective)
  • nimblefingered,
  • most nimble fingered,
  • more nimble-fingered,
  • most nimblefingered,
  • effortless,
  • most nimble-fingered,
  • having know how,
  • more nimble fingered,
  • nimble fingered,
  • having the knowhow,
  • having the know how,
  • more nimblefingered,
  • more crackerjack,
  • having knowhow,
  • most crackerjack.
  •discerning (adjective)
  • most percipient,
  • more percipient,
  • more insighted,
  • more clear sighted,
  • clear sighted,
  • most clearsighted,
  • most insighted,
  • gnostic,
  • most gnostic,
  • more clear-sighted,
  • most clear sighted,
  • most clear-sighted,
  • in sighted,
  • in-sighted,
  • more gnostic,
  • more clearsighted.
  •discriminating (adjective)
  • choicy,
  • opinionated.
  •excruciating (adjective)
  • most chastening,
  • more torturesome,
  • most tearing,
  • most racking,
  • torturing,
  • more tearing,
  • un endurable,
  • most torturesome,
  • most rending,
  • more chastening,
  • most shooting,
  • more rending,
  • in sufferable,
  • more shooting,
  • in-sufferable,
  • more torturing,
  • un-endurable,
  • more racking,
  • un-bearable,
  • most torturing,
  • un bearable.
  •exigent (adjective)
  • needful.
  •exquisite (adjective)
  • most transcending,
  • more transcending.
  •extreme (adjective)
  • maximal,
  • strong,
  • uttermost.
  •far-sighted (adjective)
  • cool headed,
  • provident,
  • far sighted,
  • wellbalanced,
  • levelheaded,
  • well balanced,
  • well-balanced.
  •farsighted (adjective)
  • more farseeing,
  • more far seeing,
  • most far seeing,
  • most far-seeing,
  • far seeing,
  • most farseeing,
  • more far-seeing.
  •fateful (adjective)
  • inauspicious,
  • Doomful,
  • Resultful,
  • portentous.
  •fine (adjective)
  • more unpolluted,
  • un adulterated,
  • more fine spun,
  • more hairline,
  • more hairsplitting,
  • most enigmatic,
  • most fine-spun,
  • trifling,
  • un polluted,
  • more fine-spun,
  • most hairline,
  • fine spun,
  • most unpolluted,
  • un-adulterated,
  • un-polluted,
  • most fine spun,
  • most hairsplitting.
  •gnawing (adjective)
  • Gnawing,
  • poinest,
  • poiner.
  •grave (adjective)
  • fellest,
  • most killing,
  • more killing,
  • killing,
  • feller.
  •having a sharp end or point (adjective)
  • peaked,
  • spiked,
  • sharpened,
  • aciculate,
  • acicular.
  •high (adjective)
  • treble.
  •high-pitched (adjective)
  • highpitched,
  • high pitched.
  •imperative (adjective)
  • in dispensable,
  • in-dispensable,
  • in-escapable,
  • in escapable.
  •intelligent (adjective)
  • well-informed,
  • bright,
  • all there,
  • more intelligent.
  •intense (adjective)
  • un duest,
  • in tensive,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • in tenser,
  • un due,
  • in-tenser,
  • most allconsuming,
  • more intensified,
  • in tense,
  • more allconsuming,
  • in-tense,
  • un-due,
  • all consuming,
  • allconsuming,
  • more all-consuming,
  • most all-consuming,
  • more all consuming,
  • most all consuming,
  • un-duest,
  • un-duer,
  • in tensest,
  • in-tensest,
  • most intensified,
  • in-tensive,
  • un duer.
  •judicious (adjective)
  • more welljudged,
  • judicial,
  • most well judged,
  • welladvised,
  • welljudged,
  • more well-judged,
  • well judged,
  • most welljudged,
  • more well judged,
  • most well-judged,
  • well-judged.
  •keen (adjective)
  • un blunted,
  • most razor sharp,
  • most honed,
  • un-blunted,
  • more honed,
  • most unblunted,
  • razorsharp,
  • more edged,
  • razor sharp,
  • more razorsharp,
  • most razor-sharp,
  • most razorsharp,
  • more razor sharp,
  • more razor-sharp,
  • most edged,
  • more unblunted.
  •loud (adjective)
  • splitting.
  •painful (adjective)
  • hurtful,
  • harrowing,
  • Irksome,
  • severe,
  • distressful,
  • chafing,
  • painful,
  • insufferable,
  • throbbing,
  • miserable,
  • cruel,
  • stinging,
  • unbearable,
  • woeful,
  • grueling,
  • odious,
  • crushing,
  • anguishing,
  • offensive,
  • smarting,
  • burdensome,
  • Cramping,
  • wrenching,
  • horrendous,
  • Besetting,
  • trying,
  • troublesome,
  • disagreeable,
  • inflaming,
  • withering,
  • Torturing.,
  • arduous,
  • aggravating,
  • stabbing,
  • biting,
  • uncomfortable,
  • bitter,
  • cutting,
  • bothersome,
  • irritating,
  • unpleasant,
  • annoying,
  • grievous,
  • oppressive,
  • tormenting,
  • agonizing,
  • aching.
  •penetrating (adjective)
  • most penetrative,
  • more penetrative.
  •peppery (adjective)
  • most sharp tempered,
  • hot tempered,
  • most sharp-tempered,
  • sharp tempered,
  • sharptempered,
  • more sharptempered,
  • quicktempered,
  • quick tempered,
  • more sharp-tempered,
  • most sharptempered,
  • more sharp tempered.
  •perceptive (adjective)
  • knows what what,
  • ear the ground,
  • knows whats what,
  • more sophic,
  • ear ground,
  • most sophic,
  • ear to ground.
  •piercing (adjective)
  • more shattering,
  • more stentorious,
  • most stentorious,
  • most shattering,
  • most numbing,
  • roaring,
  • more numbing,
  • numbing.
  •poignant (adjective)
  • tangy,
  • zestiest,
  • zestier.
  •pointed (adjective)
  • more sagittal,
  • calling a spade spade,
  • more pronged,
  • most acuminous,
  • most sharp cornered,
  • calling spade spade,
  • most short-and-sweet,
  • boiled down,
  • in sinuating,
  • more piked,
  • laid on line,
  • more sharp cornered,
  • most short and sweet,
  • more short and sweet,
  • more sharpcornered,
  • most arrowlike,
  • most sagittate,
  • more short-and-sweet,
  • most sharpcornered,
  • most pronged,
  • more acuminous,
  • more right-on,
  • on button,
  • right it,
  • most righton,
  • in-sinuating,
  • most sagittal,
  • sharp cornered,
  • most piked,
  • righton,
  • more arrowlike,
  • more sharp-cornered,
  • laid the line,
  • most sharp-cornered,
  • more righton,
  • sharpcornered,
  • more sagittate,
  • more right on,
  • most right on,
  • laid line,
  • most right-on,
  • in nutshell.
  •pressing (adjective)
  • more heat-on,
  • more hurry-up,
  • most hurry-up,
  • more hurry up,
  • re quiring,
  • more claiming,
  • most claiming,
  • most heaton,
  • heaton,
  • heat on,
  • most hurry up,
  • hurryup,
  • ex-acting,
  • most forcing,
  • more forcing,
  • most hurryup,
  • more heaton,
  • most heat-on,
  • more heat on,
  • most heat on,
  • ex acting,
  • hurry up,
  • re-quiring,
  • more hurryup.
  •profound (adjective)
  • ex tensive,
  • deep seated,
  • farreaching,
  • pro-found,
  • pro founder,
  • deepseated,
  • far reaching,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro found.
  •pungent (adjective)
  • salter,
  • mordant.
  •quick (adjective)
  • quick the uptake,
  • quickest,
  • quick uptake,
  • sharp as tack,
  • quick,
  • smart as whip,
  • quick on uptake.
  •quick-witted (adjective)
  • more sharp sighted,
  • most sharp-sighted,
  • more sharp-sighted,
  • most sharp sighted,
  • more sharpsighted,
  • quickwitted,
  • quick witted,
  • sharpsighted,
  • sharp sighted,
  • most sharpsighted.
  •raucous (adjective)
  • more earpiercing,
  • most ear-piercing,
  • in harmonious,
  • un-musical,
  • most absonant,
  • unmusical,
  • more absonant,
  • most stertorous,
  • more squawking,
  • more braying,
  • most atonal,
  • more ear piercing,
  • more atonal,
  • most braying,
  • un-harmonious,
  • stertorous,
  • dis-sonant,
  • earpiercing,
  • most earpiercing,
  • most ear piercing,
  • in-harmonious,
  • un harmonious,
  • ear piercing,
  • most squawking,
  • unharmonious,
  • un musical,
  • dis sonant,
  • more stertorous,
  • more ear-piercing.
  •sagacious (adjective)
  • sapient,
  • more astucious,
  • most astucious,
  • Astucious.
  •savvy (adjective)
  • in the know.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • supersensitive,
  • sensatory,
  • Susceptive,
  • sensory,
  • oversensitive,
  • sensile,
  • turned on to,
  • emotionable,
  • easily affected,
  • hypersensitive,
  • touchy feely,
  • reactive.
  •severe, intense (adjective)
  • overwhelming,
  • racking,
  • powerful,
  • overpowering,
  • distressing.
  •sharp (adjective)
  • needle-point,
  • horned,
  • spiny,
  • spikier,
  • sharp-edged,
  • jagged,
  • thorny,
  • tined,
  • razor-edged,
  • needle-like,
  • nobody's fool,
  • keen-edged,
  • Thistly,
  • apical,
  • spikiest,
  • barbed,
  • spiky,
  • spinous,
  • lancinating,
  • briery,
  • splintery,
  • Needle-pointed,
  • ground fine,
  • needlelike,
  • bristly,
  • smart as a tack,
  • prickly,
  • spear-like,
  • knife-edged.
  •sharp-witted (adjective)
  • more quick-thinking,
  • Sharp-witted,
  • more quickthinking,
  • quick thinking,
  • quickthinking,
  • more quick thinking,
  • most quickthinking,
  • most quick-thinking,
  • sharpwitted,
  • most quick thinking,
  • sharp witted.
  •shrewd (adjective)
  • Sharker,
  • most argute,
  • shrewdest,
  • more argute,
  • in side,
  • under hand,
  • sharkest,
  • wised up,
  • under-hand,
  • on inside.
  •shrill (adjective)
  • scratching,
  • reedy,
  • squeaky,
  • screaming,
  • whining,
  • rasping,
  • Caterwauling,
  • squealing,
  • screeching,
  • hoarse,
  • shrieking,
  • jarring,
  • creaky,
  • harsh,
  • grating,
  • scraping,
  • clangorous,
  • jangling,
  • clanging,
  • strident,
  • whistling.
  •smart (adjective)
  • more long-haired,
  • skull,
  • more longhaired,
  • skuller,
  • skullest,
  • more long haired,
  • most longhaired,
  • most long-haired,
  • longhaired,
  • most long haired,
  • long haired.
  •sore (adjective)
  • un comfortable,
  • more ulcerated,
  • more reddened,
  • un-comfortable,
  • in flamed,
  • most chafed,
  • most ulcerated,
  • pained,
  • most reddened,
  • more bruised,
  • most abscessed,
  • most bruised,
  • in-flamed,
  • more abscessed,
  • more hurting,
  • more chafed.
  •strong (adjective)
  • sinewy.
  •sudden (adjective)
  • Subito,
  • flasher.
  •tender (adjective)
  • thinskinned,
  • thin skinned.
  •trenchant (adjective)
  • to the point,
  • the point,
  • clear cut.
  •very important (adjective)
  • essential,
  • afflictive.
  •vigilant (adjective)
  • on the qui vive,
  • on alert,
  • on the lookout,
  • looking to,
  • open-eyed,
  • on lookout,
  • on toes,
  • openeyed,
  • on the job,
  • with weather eye open,
  • with eyes peeled,
  • looking for.
  •violent (adjective)
  • tumultous tumultuous,
  • tumultoustumultuous,
  • tumultous-tumultuous,
  • in-ordinate,
  • gale force.
  •wicked (adjective)
  • wicked.

• n.

  •
  • diacritic,
  • circumflex,
  • dieresis,
  • umlaut,
  • cedilla,
  • tilde.
  •
  • awful,
  • probing,
  • sensitive,
  • careful.
  •
  • distinguish,
  • perceive,
  • kinaesthetic,
  • big,
  • assail.
  •
  • piping,
  • shrieky,
  • shrilly.
  •acuate (noun)
  • acuate.
  •acute (noun)
  • incisive,
  • knifelike,
  • subacute,
  • sharp,
  • penetrating,
  • ague,
  • discriminating,
  • acute accent.
  •crucial (noun)
  • important,
  • decisive,
  • serious,
  • urgent,
  • dangerous,
  • vital,
  • drastic.
  •far-sighted (noun)
  • far-sighted.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • incurable,
  • far,
  • sharply,
  • crippling,
  • primary,
  • itchy,
  • badly,
  • massive,
  • burning,
  • febrile,
  • malignant,
  • invasive,
  • Searing,
  • merciless,
  • inactive,
  • sensation,
  • spectacular,
  • contagious,
  • parasitic,
  • perception,
  • extreme,
  • smell,
  • epidemic,
  • fatal,
  • first degree,
  • low-grade,
  • supreme,
  • traumatic,
  • assault,
  • stiff,
  • raging.
  •
  • savage,
  • local,
  • shooting,
  • terminal,
  • high-level,
  • tight,
  • proper.
  •
  • advanced,
  • sense,
  • viral,
  • full.
  •intense
  • fierce.

Paraphrases for Acute:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    acute-care.

• Independent

  • Foreign word
    aguda.
  • Adjective
    intense, pronounced, extreme, immediate, Accentuated, Heightened, great, fierce, perceptive, steep, desperate, difficult, melancholy, dire, dramatic, strong, prominent, drastic, profound, compelling, keen, marked, absolute, crucial, conspicuous, delicate, acrimonious, incisive, harsh, aggravated, pulmonary, short-lived, penetrating, astute, enormous, sensitive, sudden, tough, stark, alarming, short-duration, abject, intractable, considerable, heated, violent, daunting, accurate, pointed, imperative.
  • Proper noun, singular
    estates, Las.
  • Noun, plural
    levels.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    urgent, gravest, pressing, deep, substantial.

Antonyms for Acute:

• adj.

  • all
    obtuse, chronic.
  • deeply perceptive
    not serious, slow, insensitive, Imperceptive, blunt, unimportant, calm, ignorant, stupid, forthright, dull, mild, honest, dense, moderate.
  • severe, intense
    kind, soothing, pleasant.
  • Other antonyms:
    incidental, bad, imprecise, safe, decreased, feeble, eased, minor, trivial, idiotic, lessened, dulled, deadened, alleviated, dimmed, light, unperceiving, negligible, moderated, stable, unperceptive, fading, reduced, subdued, noncrucial, shallow, superficial, dead, stolid, unpointed, pointless, inaccurate, undiscerning, insensible, diminished, imbecile, numb, qualified, blind, weak, toned.

Homophones for Acute:

• aged, accede, aesthete, associate, acetate, agitated, accost, Asadha, associated, azide, act out, accused, azote, aghast, 15 August 1945, Agua Toad, assisted, acth, actuated, asset, acuate, actuate, act, aguacate, agate, agouti, actaea, access code, acadia, august 6, acidity, aside, august 1, axe head, acquit, assist, acedia, assiduity, acid dye, augusta, ague weed, agueweed, acheta, aught, august, as yet, astute, august 15, aikido, axseed, ascot, augite, acuity, Azo Dye, azido, ax head, acid, acid head, acquitted, agitate, ask out, acaudate, asat, azt.

Hyponym for Acute:

• n.

  • communication
    accent mark, accent.