Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Sharp, pointed; discerning perceptive; as, an acute angle, an acute mind. 2. (a.) Having shrewd discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning. 3. (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. 4. (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent. 5. (a.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. 6. (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.

Multi-Version Concordance Acute (4 Occurrences) Luke 4:38 Now when He rose and left the synagogue He went to Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was suffering from an acute attack of fever; and they consulted Him about her. (WEY) 2 Chronicles 9:1 And the queen of Sheba hath heard of the fame of Solomon, and cometh in to try Solomon with acute sayings, to Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels bearing spices and gold in abundance, and precious stone; and she cometh in unto Solomon, and speaketh with him all that hath been with her heart, (YLT) Proverbs 1:6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings. (YLT) Habakkuk 2:6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo 'to' him who is multiplying 'what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges? (YLT)