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Acutely

adverb

In an acute manner. "Acutely aware"

Having a rapid onset. Antonym: chronically.

Changing suddenly in direction and degree. Synonyms: sharp, sharply. "Turn sharp left here" , "The visor was acutely peaked" , "Her shoes had acutely pointed toes"

In a shrewd manner. Synonyms: astutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly. "He was acutely insightful"

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"Acutely" Quotes from Famous Books

... the people have a fire all night. In the morning they cower over it like inhabitants of the poles. Of course we as well as they, having been baked in the summer's sun, now feel the cold most acutely. ...

— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 • James Richardson

... one-legged lieutenant and his young companions on their way to Portsmouth. Ned bore the parting manfully, though he did not the less acutely feel having to wish good-bye to Aunt Sally, Mary, and ...

— Ned Garth - Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade • W. H. G. Kingston

... Whittlestaff would then have known the condition of her heart, before he had himself spoken a word. And as the trouble would always have been in his own bosom, there would, so to say, have been no trouble at all. A man's sorrows of that kind do not commence, or at any rate are not acutely felt, while the knowledge of the matter from which they grow is confined altogether to ...

— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope

... boy whom I'm training to whip to me, you know"—(as a matter of fact, the Whip was a year older than the Master)—"is beginning to drink a bit. When I came down here before breakfast this mornin'"—when Freddy was feeling more acutely than usual his position as an M.F.H., he cut his g's and talked slightly through his nose, even, on occasion, going so far as to omit the aspirate in talking of his hounds—"there wasn't a sign of him—kennel door not open or anything. I let the poor brutes out into the run. I tell you, what ...

— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

... the legacy (though it smoothed away his chief difficulties) as more than another of those ill-requited benefits which were weighing him to the earth. He read on to a sentence which reproached him so acutely, that he would willingly have hidden from it, as he had done from Guy's countenance. It was the bequest of L5000 to Elizabeth Wellwood. Sebastian Dixon's debts were to be paid off; L1000 was left to Marianne Dixon, ...

— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge

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