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What is the adjective for acutely?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb acute which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

acute
  1. Urgent.
  2. Sensitive.
  3. Short, quick, brief.
  4. (geometry) Of an angle, less than 90 degrees.
  5. (geometry) Of a triangle, having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
  6. (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base)
  7. (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity (unlike the common usage).
  8. (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
  9. (orthography, after a letter) Having an acute accent.
  10. High or shrill.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “A number of other obstetric events can cause an onset of acute pain.”
      “In the present scenario, where acute water shortage has become a reality, it is not right to pass the burden on to the people.”
      “The thesis details the effects of short term or acute exposure to Dieldrin and other organic insecticides upon different species of fish.”
acuted
  1. (linguistics) Exhibiting acute accent.
  2. (linguistics) Exhibiting a language-specific type of pitch accent or tone characterized by acute accent mark in the respective language transcription or orthography.
acuter
acutest
  1. superlative form of acute: most acute
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He sees that Shakespeare discovered how he might use analogy and metaphor as the acutest representation possible of a mind engaged in thought.”
      “The West must then have been the culture in which a crisis that was already universal assumed its acutest form.”
      “The acutest German, the lovingest disciple could never tell what Platonism was.”
acuting
  1. present participle of acute
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