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5-letter words (1 found)

ACUTE,

4-letter words (3 found)

CATE,CUTE,TACE,

3-letter words (17 found)

ACE,ACT,ATE,AUE,CAT,CUE,CUT,EAT,EAU,ECU,ETA,TAE,TAU,TEA,TEC,UTA,UTE,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AT,EA,ET,TA,TE,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from acute according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of acute

acute caute aucte uacte cuate ucate actue catue atcue tacue ctaue tcaue autce uatce atuce tauce utace tuace cutae uctae ctuae tcuae utcae tucae acuet cauet aucet uacet cuaet ucaet aceut caeut aecut eacut ceaut ecaut auect uaect aeuct eauct ueact euact cueat uceat ceuat ecuat uecat eucat acteu cateu atceu taceu ctaeu tcaeu acetu caetu aectu eactu ceatu ecatu atecu taecu aetcu eatcu teacu etacu cteau tceau cetau ectau tecau etcau autec uatec atuec tauec utaec tuaec auetc uaetc aeutc eautc ueatc euatc ateuc taeuc aetuc eatuc teauc etauc uteac tueac uetac eutac teuac etuac cutea uctea ctuea tcuea utcea tucea cueta uceta ceuta ecuta uecta eucta cteua tceua cetua ectua tecua etcua uteca tueca uetca eutca teuca etuca

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Definitions and meaning of acute

acute

Etymology

From Late Middle English acute (“of a disease or fever: starting suddenly and lasting for a short time; of a humour: irritating, sharp”), from Latin acūta, from acūtus (“sharp, sharpened”), perfect passive participle of acuō (“to make pointed, sharpen, whet”), from acus (“needle, pin”). The word is cognate to ague (“acute, intermittent fever”).

As regards the noun, which is derived from the verb, compare Middle English acūte (“severe but short-lived fever; of blood: corrosiveness, sharpness; musical note of high pitch”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈkjuːt/
  • (General American) enPR: ə-kyo͞ot′, IPA(key): /əˈkjut/
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Adjective

acute (comparative acuter or more acute, superlative acutest or most acute)

  1. Brief, quick, short.
    Synonyms: fast, rapid
    Antonyms: leisurely, slow
  2. High or shrill.
    Antonym: grave
  3. Intense; sensitive; sharp.
    Synonyms: keen, powerful, strong, peracute
    Antonyms: dull, obtuse, slow, witless
  4. Urgent.
    Synonyms: emergent, pressing, sudden
  6. (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
    Antonyms: obtuse, subacute
  8. (geometry, of an angle) Less than 90 degrees.
    Antonym: obtuse
  10. (geometry, of a triangle) Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
    Synonym: acute-angled
    Antonyms: obtuse, obtuse-angled
  11. (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
  12. (phonology, dated, of a sound) Sharp, produced in the front of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
    Coordinate term: grave
  13. (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
  14. (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
    Antonym: chronic
    Coordinate terms: preacute, subacute, postacute
  15. (orthography) After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • ague

Translations

Noun

acute (plural acutes)

  1. (medicine, informal) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
  2. (linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others.
    Antonym: grave
  3. (orthography) An acute accent (´).

Translations

Verb

acute (third-person singular simple present acutes, present participle acuting, simple past and past participle acuted)

  1. (transitive, phonetics) To give an acute sound to.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.

Translations

References

Further reading

  • acute (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • AUTEC, Ceuta

Asturian

Verb

acute

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of acutar

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑˈky.tə/

Adjective

acute

  1. inflection of acuut:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.kyt/
  • Homophone: acutes

Adjective

acute

  1. feminine singular of acut

Interlingua

Adjective

acute (not comparable)

  1. acute

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈku.te/
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Hyphenation: a‧cù‧te

Adjective

acute f pl

  1. feminine plural of acuto

Anagrams

  • caute

Latin

Participle

acūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of acūtus

References

  • “acute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “acute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • acute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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