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

sharp
  1. Able to cut easily.
  2. (colloquial) Intelligent.
  3. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
  4. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
  5. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
  6. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
  7. Sudden and intense.
  8. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
  9. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
  10. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
  11. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
  12. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
  13. Observant; alert; acute.
  14. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
  15. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
  16. (mathematics) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
  17. (chess) Tactical; risky.
  18. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
  19. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
  20. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
  21. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
  22. (phonetics) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
  23. Synonyms:
  24. Examples:
    1. “There was nothing we had available that was sharp enough to use as a cutting tool.”
      “His mind was as sharp as it had ever been.”
      “In reality, it was ordinary citizens and not the sharp operators who stored their wealth in banknotes.”
sharped
  1. (music) Raised in pitch by half a note. Made into a sharp note.
sharper
sharpenable
  1. Capable of being sharpened.
sharpened
sharpe
  1. Obsolete spelling of sharp
  2. Examples:
    1. “Departed tight end Shannon Sharpe led the Broncos in receptions in six of the past eight seasons.”
      “Further research will be necessary to determine what suppression of testosterone levels might mean, Sharpe said.”
      “Mr Sharpe said it was mainly young people who self-harmed due to the pressures of modern living.”
sharpest
  1. superlative form of sharp: most sharp
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Popper defined the sharpest demarcation between science and metaphysics, defining testability as the criterion of demarcation.”
      “One of my sharpest childhood memories is of my father coming home with his toolbox on his shoulder, paid off from his joiner's job.”
      “He was the father of experimental science, the sharpest thinker of his time, a great debater and a dismissive polemicist.”
sharping
  1. present participle of sharp
sharpening
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