Crossword-Solution: ACUTE 5 letters, 447 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Acute	a.	Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
Acute	a.	Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
Acute	a.	Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
Acute	a.	High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
Acute	a.	Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
Acute	v. t.	To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ACUTE	anagram	CEUTA

We have 447 clues for the answer “ACUTE”

Clue	Answers
Sharp and intense in effect or feeling	1 answer
50° to 60°, say	1 answer
70 degrees, say	1 answer
80 on a math test, maybe	1 answer
A charming accent	1 answer
Able to recognize or draw fine distinctions	1 answer
Accent of a sort.	1 answer
An angle	1 answer
An angle perhaps	1 answer
Angle between 0 and 90 degrees	1 answer
Angle less than 90 degrees	1 answer
Angle not quite right?	1 answer
Angle that's smaller than 90 degrees	1 answer
Another kind of angle.	1 answer
Below 90 degrees in math class	1 answer
Below 90°	1 answer
Between 0 and 90 degrees, as an angle	1 answer
Between zero and 90 degrees	1 answer
COMING sharply to a crisis	1 answer
CRISIS, coming sharply to a	1 answer
Critical or crucial	1 answer
Critical, as a shortage	1 answer
Critical; serious	1 answer
Demanding urgent action	1 answer
Extreme, as pain	1 answer
Extremely sharp or intense	1 answer
Hardly obtuse	1 answer
Highly sensitive	1 answer
Intense, poignant.	1 answer
Keen of mind.	1 answer
Keen, as eyesight	1 answer
Keen, as perception	1 answer
Keenly felt	1 answer
Type of angle less than 90 degrees	1 answer
Less than 90	1 answer
Less than 90 (degrees)	1 answer
Less than 90 degrees, anglewise	1 answer
Less than 90 degrees, in geometry	1 answer
Less than 90°, as an angle	1 answer
Less than obtuse	1 answer
Less than right	1 answer
Less than right, angle-wise	1 answer
Less than right, geometrically	1 answer
Less than right, in a way	1 answer
Like a 10-degree angle	1 answer
Like a 14-degree angle	1 answer
Like a 20-degree angle	1 answer
Like a 30-degree angle	1 answer
Like a 34-degree angle	1 answer
Like a 44-degree angle	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

EAECZM

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with ACUTE (5)

His gifts were emphatically those of a man of business; prompt, acute, clear-minded; with an eye that saw through all perplexities, and a faculty of arrangement that made them vanish as by the waving of an enchanter’s wand.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

The contrast between the swift and complex movements of these contrivances and the inert panting clumsiness of their masters was acute, and for days I had to tell myself repeatedly that these latter were indeed the living of the two things.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Then at the appointed, at the acute, moment, the soprano voice, like a fountain jet, shot up into the light.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

She noted—with that acute sense of hers—that she had succeeded in completely allaying Sir Andrew’s fears.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

The bicycle, in the hands of a novice, is as alert and acute as a spirit-level in the detecting of delicate and vanishing shades of difference in these matters.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with ACUTE (3)

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.

Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

When you are conscious, try to develop an acute awareness about the mysterious aspects of our being, our consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

Someone has said,” Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one’s ignorance.”..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

Charles R. Swindoll

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 564 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).