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- adjective Less common
comparative form ofacute : moreacute
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Examples
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Similarly, the 22 month-long oil scarcity in Nepal has now got far acuter than ever before.
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Now the oil shortage has become far acuter than it was 22 months ago.
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The reason is clear: they do not spend their resources on lessening human pain but making it further acuter.
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But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least well-being, in this part of the universe which we inhabit.
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But of this the great majority have no feeling, but are merely hireling and professorial; except when it occasionally happens that some workman of acuter wit and covetous of honor applies himself to a new invention, which he mostly does at the expense of his fortunes.
The New Organon 2005
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But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least well-being, in this part of the universe which we inhabit.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome.
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"Wait a bit," said the acuter intelligence of Jemmy Vetch.
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How one should solve this, is clear: for the word does not mean the same when spoken with an acuter and when spoken with a graver accent.
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For they solve the difficulty by a change of accent, pronouncing the ou with an acuter accent.
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