English-Italian translations for acute

• acuto
  Ciò è particolarmente vero oggi, visto che il pericolo per l'Ucraina proveniente dalla Russia si sta facendo più acuto. This is particularly true today, when the danger to Ukraine from the Kremlin is becoming more acute.
  Purtroppo, la Convenzione non sembra davvero comprendere quanto sia acuto il problema. Unfortunately, the Convention does not really seem to be seeing how acute the problem is either.
  Il carattere acuto della crisi dell'ESB ha dimostrato che occorre al più presto estendere il regime di responsabilità ai prodotti difettosi. The acute nature of the BSE crisis showed that liability for defective products needs to be widened as quickly as possible.
• brusca
• brusco
• improvvisa
• improvviso
  Nella sua forma più acuta, un attacco improvviso di dissenteria liquida può causare la morte a seguito di disidratazione grave e complicazioni renali. In its most severe form a sudden onset of acute watery diarrhoea can lead to death by severe dehydration and kidney failure.
• istantaneo

Definition of acute

• brief#Adjective|Brief, quick#Adjective|quick, short#Adjective|short
• high#Adjective|High or shrill
• Intense, sensitive, sharp#Adjective|sharp
• Urgent
• With the side#Noun|sides meet#Verb|meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base
• Of an angle: less than 90 degrees
• Of a triangle: having all three interior#Adjective|interior angles measure#Verb|measuring less than 90 degrees
• Of an accent#Noun|accent or tone#Noun|tone: generally high#Adjective|higher than others
• Of an abnormal condition#Noun|condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed#Adjective|delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage
• Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity
• After a letter#Noun|letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent
• A person who has the acute form of a disorder#Noun|disorder, such as schizophrenia
• An accent#Noun|accent or tone#Noun|tone high#Adjective|higher than others
• An acute accent (´
• To give an #Adjective|acute sound#Noun|sound to
• To make #Adjective|acute; to sharpen, to whet#Verb|whet

Examples

• It was an acute event
• an acute accent or tone
• She had an acute sense of honour. Eagles have very acute vision
• His need for medical attention was acute
• The teacher pointed out the acute angle
• an acute triangle
• He dropped dead of an acute illness
• The acute symptoms resolved promptly
• The last letter of ‘café’ is ‘e’ acute
• The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’
• He acutes his rising inflection too much

Related words

• acute-angled
• acutely
• acuteness
• subacute
• hyperacute
• Montacute
• acute accent
• acute triangle
• acute angle