Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: acutely
IPA transcription: [əkj'utli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: acutely
    Meaning: in an acute manner; "she pitied her sister acutely"; "acutely aware"
  • Synonyms: acutely
    Meaning: having a rapid onset; "an acutely debilitating virus"
Usage examples
  • Lilla suffered acutely.
  • The Greeks acutely raised the question: How can we learn?
  • The advice was followed readily, for the feverish symptoms increased, and her head ached acutely.
  • I took Mr. Dick with me, because, acutely sensitive to my aunt's reverses, and sincerely believing that no galley-slave or convict worked as I did, he had begun to fret and worry himself out of spirits and appetite, as having nothing useful to do.
  • I promised to be at the castle last night, but unfortunately I felt indisposed, and only that I wished to have a thorough understanding relative to your recent conduct, and which has pained me acutely, I should not have ventured out of doors this evening either.
  • And he was acutely conscious of a pair of violet eyes that would have drawn Saint Pyrites from his iron pillar--or whatever the allusion is--and of the lady's smile and look--a little frightened, but a look that, with the ever coward heart of a true lover, he could not yet construe.
  • The hot weather had continued late into September and showed no signs of breaking yet, and it would be agreeable to her and acutely painful to others that just at the end of the summer she should appear in a perfectly new costume, before the days of jumpers and heavy skirts and large woollen scarves came in.