Acute - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 15/10/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Acute.

4 letter answer(s) to acute

DIRE
  1. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
  2. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
KEEN
  1. a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
  2. express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"
  3. having a sharp cutting edge or point; "a keen blade"
  4. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
  5. intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"
  6. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
  7. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

7 letter answer(s) to acute

EXTREME
  1. beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions"
  2. far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger"
  3. most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"
  4. of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress"
  5. the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
  6. the point located farthest from the middle of something
INTENSE
  1. (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue"
  2. extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"
  3. possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"

6 letter answer(s) to acute

SEVERE
  1. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
  2. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality;
  3. severely simple;
  4. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment;
  5. very bad in degree or extent;
  6. very strong or vigorous;

5 letter answer(s) to acute

SHARP
  1. (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "C sharp"
  2. (of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"
  3. a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
  4. a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
  5. changing suddenly in direction and degree; "the road twists sharply after the light"; "turn sharp left here"; "the visor was acutely peaked"; "her shoes had acutely pointed toes"
  6. ending in a sharp point
  7. extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
  8. harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"
  9. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "

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Above true pitch; stylish
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Acidic; note
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Apocalyptic
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Awful
Awful finisher, reportedly?
Biting
Brainy
Calamitous
Clearly defined; note
Clever
Concentrated at home on future perhaps
Cool present for one getting passionate
Cry “willing”!
Cutting; acidic
Dashing
Deep
Deeply felt
Demanding
Deserve to miss writer being thrown back in river for going too far
Desperate
Disastrous
Divorce wife ultimately finds difficult
Drastic
Drastic - limit
Drastic times, with alien soldiers around
Dreadful
Dreadful order disregards court's contribution
Dreadful, as circumstance
Dries out properties that are distressing to be in
Eager
Eager to display grief
Eager trainee losing end of decider on points
Eager, enthusiastic
Eager; wail in grief
End of unlimited messages associated with army engineers
Enthusiastic
Exacting
Exceptional leave I declined joining the Sappers
Extreme
Extremely earnest
Extremely serious
Extremely sharp
Fanatical
Far-out
Fervent
Fine-edged
Forbidding
Foreboding trouble
Formal - unsmiling
Former servicemen carry tons furthest
Fraught with danger
Gloss given by oil company account
Great anger when Charlie ousted by Tory leader
Great stylish present for one
Grievous
Grim at all times in southeast
Gung-ho
Hard to translate verse? Easy at first
Harsh
Harsh member of clergy rising in diocese
High-pitched
Highly developed knowledge about English
Honed
Horrendous
Horrific
Hot to trot
Immoderate
In ___ straits
Incisive English coming from satirical novelist
Insightful
Intense lamentation for the dead
Intense old flame very short with Hoskins
Intense setter following former model about
Intense, but unopened message about Hoskins
Intent to show one’s grief
Itching (to)
Keen
Keen - exactly
Kill-or-cure? - then dies from the next remedies
Kind of need
Kind of straits
Knifelike
Knowledge about energy making you enthusiastic
Lament loudly
Life-or-death
Like a tack
Like an eagle's vision
Like enthusiast to some extent
Like no-holds-barred spor
Like some cheddar
Like some consequences
Like some curves
Like some gazes
Like some straits
Like some thunderstorms
Limit flexible term accommod­ated by Devon banker
Maiden hiding in Exeter, out in a faraway place
More than serious
Most violent end
Musical symbol
Nearly hopeless
Neato
Nifty
Not dull
Not just serious
Not looking good
Not usual in America to leave additional space at end of page
Note coming from small plucked instrument
Note, part of lush arpeggio?
Old call turns stomach: "At last, charge over the top!"
Ominous
Ominous rainclouds beginning to appear - peg out clothes?
On the ball or on the dot
On the dot
On the fringes of old part of forest covering miles
One knight under emotional strain and passionate
Opposite of mild, in chee
Passionate
Passionate anger when Catholic becomes Protestant finally
Penetrating
Piercing; clearly defined
Pointy
Potentially disastrous
Powerful
Powerful batting, past, present or future?
Presaging disaster
Quick
Quick-witted
Radical
Radical former partner Mike wearing lime perhaps
Radical message, not the first, going to engineers
Rage-filled policeman features in predicament
Razor-sharp
Rigorous - harsh
Said to be so different from say profound
Seen in context, remedy is immoderate
Seen in context, remedy’s drastic
Serious
Serious passion seen in pursuit of daughter
Serious tennis played by European
Sharp
Sharp - express grief
Sharp as a tack
Sharply focused
Showing no compassion at any time in Kent?
Small instrument out of tune
Small stringed instrument needing tuning?
Some make enquiries, full of enthusiasm
Soprano plucked instrument precisely
Special instrument's raised pitch
Stern
Strict clergyman is elevated in diocese
Strict member of the clergy turned up in diocese
Strict, harsh
Strong
Strong batting, perfect for example
Strong perfume making leading conservative go for model-type
Strong set with nine changes
Strong, as emotions
Strongly felt
Strongly-felt
Stylish marker pen that is missing
Sudden
Tacky?
Terrible
Terrible funeral song not good
Too high in pitch
Torrential
Tough being cute?
Type-A
Under canvas, reportedly getting saturated?
Unreasonable partner once fiddled with meter
Urgent
Utmost
Verse in translation, initially extremely hard
Very bad
Very emotional
Very enthusiastic
Very great
Very great; not usual
Very powerful, breaking within ten seconds
Very sensitive
Very serious
Very sharp
Very strict
Vivid
Vivid - acute
Wail like a banshee
White-knuckle
With it

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