Clues for the word "ACUTE"
We've had 195 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 594 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on March 18, 2026.
Definition of acute
- a. - Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
- a. - Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
- a. - Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
- a. - High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
- a. - Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
- v. t. - To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.
Referring Clues
- Intense
- Not chronic
- Grave
- Critical
- Angle type
- Pressing
- Sharp as a tack
- Sharp
- Urgent
- Very perceptive
- Less than right?
- Like some triangles
- Like some accents
- Keen
- Like some French accents
- Quite sharp
- Life-threatening
- Less than right
- Obtuse's opposite
- Well-tuned
- Not quite right?
- Severe
- It's never right
- Less than 90 degrees
- Not chronic, medically
- Very sharp
- Sharply felt
- Less than obtuse
- Perceptive
- Quick-sighted
- Stabbing
- Type of triangle
- Keenly felt
- Like some angles
- Like severe pain
- Like angles less than 90 degrees
- Type of angle
- Extreme, as pain
- Much more than mere
- Finely honed
- Geometry term
- Very serious
- Sharp or severe
- Less than 90 degrees, in geometry
- Angle less than 90 degrees
- Small angle
- Extremely sharp or intense
- Severe, as pain
- Less than 90 degrees, anglewise
- Like an angle that's less than 90 degrees
- Angle that's smaller than 90 degrees
- Not chronic, as illness
- Like a 45° or 60° angle
- Penetrating
- Less than 90°, as an angle
- Brainy
- Very sensitive
- Like most triangle angles
- Biting
- Not obtuse
- Accent type
- Piercing
- Keen, as perception
- Stabbing, as pain
- Sharp, as pain
- An angle perhaps
- Sharp or intense
- Like an eagle's eyesight
- Angle between 0 and 90 degrees
- Like intense pain
- Hardly obtuse
- Sharp-eyed
- ___ accent, mark used symmetrically six times in this puzzle's solution
- Quite sharp, as a pain
- Sharper than 90 degrees
- Like a sharp pain
- Less than 90 (degrees)
- Keenly perceptive
- Crucial
- Pain or angle preceder
- Like the accent in "entrée"
- Shrewd
- Sharp, as an eagle's eyesight
- Kind of angle
- Sharp, as eyesight
- Sharp angle
- Like the accent on "passé"
- Perspicacious
- Cutting
- Sharp, as vision
- Under 90 degrees
- Sharper than 90°
- Like the accent in cliché
- Like two angles in a right triangle
- Keen, as eyesight
- Like the accent in "é"
- Like a 45-degree angle
- Type of angle or pain
- Severe and short, as an illness
- A charming accent
- Between 0 and 90 degrees, as an angle
- Sharp-witted
- Diacritical mark
- Less than 90°
- Some angles
- Sharp in perception
- Sharp as hearing
- Razor-sharp
- Like a hawk's vision
- Penetrating, as insight
- Intense, as pain
- Below 90°
- Serious
- Like many triangle angles
- A quaintly pleasing French accent?
- A clipped English accent
- Sharp or severe (5)
- Losing a record deal, for example
- The Kinks "___ Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues"
- Sharp-pointed - keenly perceptive
- Extremely intense
- Severe laceration seen in hospital department
- Extremely sharp
- A cut key is sharp
- A pretty attractive sort of accent?
- Sharp enough to cut keys out
- 70 degrees, say
- A wound made with a point that's sharp
- (Of an angle) less than 90°
- Accent displaying perspicacity
- Serious but not grave
- Sharp (pain)
- Keen (sense)
- A most appealing French accent
- Sharp clue for Pertwee?
- Critical: shrewd
- Canny
- Shrewd one wants to get lovable
- Top grade's pretty clever
- A prompt for actor to keep last part of Hamlet intense
- A shot to the offside towards point is shrewd
- Adult with endearing French accent
- A charming French accent
- A pleasantly appealing French accent
- Perceptive account, subtle except for odd parts
- Shrewd troublemaker skirting copper
- Article, pretty sharp
- A clever sort of angle?
- Accent mark
- Less than 90°
- Very serious, as a water shortage
- Opposite of obtuse, in geometry class
- Like a 20-degree angle
- Less than 90 degree (angle) or sharp (pain)
- Like sharp pain
- Angle not quite right?
- Able to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- A clever sort of angle
- Severe but short, as an illness
- A pretty sharp accent
- Not quite right, maybe
- To be sharp, one needs to be clever
- Sharp, severe
- A quaintly pleasing French accent?
- Less than right?
- Like a 30-degree angle
- Like two right-triangle angles
- Sharp, as intelligence
- Like the accent in passé
- Critical when abbreviated in notes
- A clever word, really sharp!
- Less than 90°, as an angle
- Less than right, angle-wise
- Not quite right?
- Like an angle that's neither right nor obtuse
- Highly perceptive
- Like an angle less than 90°
- Word before "accent" or "angle"
- Word from the Latin for "sharpened"
- Like a four-degree angle
- Like the angles in an equilateral triangle
- Opposite of obtuse
- Rhyme and synonym of "astute"
- Like angles measuring less than 90 degrees
- Less than 90º
- Like at least two angles of every triangle
- Not right or obtuse
- Sharp, as some angles
- Like less-than-90-degree angles
- A pretty attractive sort of accent?
- Like a 25-degree angle
- Like a 10-degree angle
- 80 on a math test, maybe
- Like a 60-degree angle
- Between zero and 90 degrees
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - March 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 05, 2026
- LA Times - February 19, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 28, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 30, 2025
- LA Times - December 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 30, 2025
- LA Times - September 28, 2025
- LA Times - September 17, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 24, 2025
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