Acute
- Brief, quick, short.
Synonyms: fast, rapid
Antonyms: leisurely, slow
- High or shrill.
Antonym: grave
- Intense, sensitive, sharp.
Synonyms: keen, powerful, strong
Antonyms: dull, obtuse, slow, witless
- Urgent.
Synonyms: emergent, pressing, sudden
- (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
Synonym: obtuse
- (geometry) Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
Antonym: obtuse
- (geometry) Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
Synonym: acute-angled
Antonyms: obtuse, obtuse-angled
- (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- (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.
- (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
Antonym: chronic
- (orthography) After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.