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acuteness

/uh-kyoot/US // əˈkyut //UK // (əˈkjuːt) //

尖锐性,敏锐性,敏锐度,尖锐度

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow;an acute pain.
    • : extremely great or serious; crucial; critical: an acute shortage of oil.
    • : brief and severe.
    • : sharp or penetrating in intellect, insight, or perception: an acute observer.
    • : extremely sensitive even to slight details or impressions: acute eyesight.
    • : sharp at the end; ending in a point.
    • : Geometry. less than 90°. containing only acute angles.
    • : consisting of, indicated by, or bearing the mark ´, placed over vowel symbols in some languages to show that the vowels or the syllables they are in are pronounced in a certain way, as in French that the quality of an e so marked is close; in Hungarian that the vowel is long; in Spanish that the marked syllable bears the word accent; in Ibo that it is pronounced with high tones; or in classical Greek, where the mark originated, that the syllable bears the word accent and is pronounced, according to the ancient grammarians, with raised pitch: the acute accent; an acute e.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the acute accent.

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Examples

  • Research has shown that antiviral medications administered shortly after the onset of symptoms were found to be effective against acute viral infections such as flu.

  • If you’re rehabbing an acute injury, check in with a physical therapist before beginning this routine.

  • Candia said the older brother was suffering from acute heat stroke after spending two hours in the car’s trunk.

  • Both parties united to stop Metzger from winning in November, with the national Democratic chair calling his primary victory “an acute embarrassment.”

  • The act of foraging, a completely unchanged activity in a pandemic, possesses the acute ability to make me forget about the state of things entirely.

  • His perception was still exceptionally alert, its acuteness left over, apparently, from the earlier days of pain and jealousy.

  • But I have enough mental acuteness to see that the religion of Jeremy Taylor was cowardly, and gloomy, and untrue.

  • Among the former are acuteness and quickness of vision, the power of grasping complex subjects, and a good memory.

  • Her loss of sight had been more than compensated by an extraordinary acuteness of mental vision.

  • That is the way of female intellects when they are good; nothing equals their acuteness, and their rapidity is almost excessive.