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acuteadjective able to sense slight impressions or differencesdogs, with their acute sense of smell, are used for finding toxic substances undetectable by humans delicate, fine, keen, perceptive, quick, sensitive, sharp accurate, clear, discerning, good, piercing, precise, receptive, sensible, subtlehair-trigger, hyperacute, hypersensitive, oversensitive, supersensitive bad, deadened, dimmed, dull, dulled, fadingdead, imperceptive, insensible, insensitive, numbimprecise, inaccurate needing immediate attentionfamine caused by an acute shortage of grain burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overridingcrucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death(also life-or-death), serious, severe, vitaldangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable noncritical, nonurgent incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportantnonthreatening, safe, stable extreme in degree, power, or effectexperiencing acute distress over the misunderstanding with her best friend almighty, blistering, deep, dreadful, excruciating, explosive, exquisite, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, fierce, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, hellacious, intense, intensive, keen, profound, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepenedemphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnifiedstressedexhaustive, thoroughharsh, rigorous, severe light, moderate, soft feeble, weakshallow, superficialmoderated, qualifiedalleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down)abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued acute, critical, crucial mean of uncertain outcome.acute stresses intensification of conditions leading to a culmination or breaking point.an acute housing shortage critical adds to acute implications of imminent change, of attendant suspense, and of decisiveness in the outcome.the war has entered a critical phase crucial suggests a dividing of the ways and often a test or trial involving the determination of a future course or direction.a crucial vote Cf. sharp. in the 14th century |