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Synonyms:
- swell, incisive, crushing, perceive, strident, vivid, grave, agonising, harrowing, miserable, perspicacious, piping, observant, fundamental, intolerant, high-pitched, frightful, basic, diacritic, crying, explosive, raw, stark, painful, clinical, cuspidate, dour, umlaut, Spartan, piercing, exigent, besetting, frosty, urgent, assault, dire, intense, trenchant, heavy-duty, desperate, offensive, strait-laced, ascetic, stringent, dieresis, scraping, curt, climacteric, uncomfortable, odious, precipitous, aciculate, subtile, trying, vehement, tormenting, piquant, jangling, shrieking, obdurate, bristly, agonizing, crippling, treble, aggravating, spiked, clear-sighted, chafing, dandy, imperial, stiff-necked, arduous, fine, keen, intensive, groovy, authoritarian, grim, gnawing, irritating, bang-up, icy, distressful, brusque, censorious, correct, hidebound, imperative, cramping, pointy, deep, sagacious, brisk, bleak, throbbing, subtle, sharp, irksome, gruff, horrendous, sensitive, shrieky, dangerous, acrimonious, perceptive, important, compelling, jagged, sense, crisp, drastic, prudish, meticulous, achy, reedy, probing, withering, abrupt, exquisite, rigid, sore, chronic, disagreeable, insufferable, ghastly, accent, hurtful, squeaky, quick, critical, cunning, benign, safety, grueling, whining, tart, nifty, careful, bully, judicious, severe, prickly, pressing, not bad, inflexible, unbending, discriminating, violent, thistly, big, serious, scratching, great, chilly, cracking, strict, wrenching, crafty, burdensome, woeful, cuspidated, austere, cedilla, angry, imperious, circumflex, sensation, chapped, fearsome, acicular, short, advanced, ague, spiky, oppressive, screeching, barbed, hoarse, rigorous, troublesome, sagittal, demanding, penetrative, stern, biting, smashing, needlelike, tilde, cuspate, smarting, bad, spear-like, lancinating, necessitous, acuminate, cutting, squealing, crucial, congenital, whistling, terrible, sharp-worded, knifelike, unpleasant, communicable, corking, cuspated, heavy, blistering, caustic, grating, pointed, extreme, emergent, perception, caterwauling, unbearable, hellacious, shooting, peachy, bitter, kinaesthetic, vicious, delicate, shrewd, aciculated, shrill, intelligent, mucronate, lancinate, almighty, chills and fever, stinging, cool, importunate, astringent, astute, furious, dry, subacute, thorny, raucous, aching, instant, uncompromising, penetrating, excruciating, hard, acerbic, stabbing, ear-piercing, needle-like, clamant, dreadful, vital, neat, relentless, screaming, inflaming, fearful, ferocious, discerning, acuate, Draconian, razor-edged, high, jarring, fierce, puritanical, obstinate, assail, lean, shrilly, catching, knowing, bothersome, autoimmune, needle-point, spare, asymptomatic, slap-up, precise, spiny, clever, decisive, harsh, torturing, creaky, burning, anguishing, distinguish, awful, spinous, exacting, blunt, cruel, annoying, rasping, grievous, disciplined, acute accent, profound
Examples:
- - And if their emotion was so acute it was probably because they felt that this was the last time they would meet as lovers. - "Paris From the "Three Cities"", Emile Zola
- - She had, therefore, the additional labour of keeping her secret from Mary's prying eyes, and Mary was nearly as acute as Mrs. McKeon. - "The Macdermots of Ballycloran", Anthony Trollope
- - The quiet, controlled tone of his voice chilled and pained her, but her emotions were too recent and too acute to be restrained. - "Elder Conklin and Other Stories", Frank Harris
Antonyms:
- diminished, safe, imprecise, abated, dimmed, trivial, inaccurate, unintelligent, shallow, eased, unperceiving, reduced, noncrucial, imbecile, dulled, subdued, toned, alleviated, unimportant, weak, stable, unperceptive, insensible, deadened, soft, undiscerning, minor, superficial, moderate, dead, negligible, low-pressure, insensitive, moderated, lightened, unpointed, imperceptive, lessened, bad, obtuse, idiotic, incidental, fading, chronic, pointless, feeble, dull, qualified, blind, numb, noncritical, degenerative, decreased, stolid, light
