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Acutely

adverb

In an acute manner. "Acutely aware"

Having a rapid onset.

Changing suddenly in direction and degree. Synonyms: sharp, sharply. "Turn sharp left here" , "The visor was acutely peaked" , "Her shoes had acutely pointed toes"

In a shrewd manner. Synonyms: astutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly. "He was acutely insightful"

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"Acutely" Quotes from Famous Books

... treated exactly alike in the beginning. The only vital thing is to recognize that you are dealing with an infection of some sort, isolate promptly the little patient, put him to bed, and make your diagnosis later as the disease develops. Fortunately neither scarlet fever nor measles usually becomes acutely infectious until the rash appears, and as neither is particularly dangerous to adults, especially to such as have had them already, a one-room quarantine is sufficient for the first few days of any of these diseases. We will lose nothing and gain ...

— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson

... stood there and observed not one thing, not even one little accessory detail, was lost on me; my attention was acutely keen; I absorbed carefully every little thing as I stood and thought out my own thought, about each thing according as it occurred. So it was impossible that there could be anything the matter with ...

— Hunger • Knut Hamsun

... to wait long, then! I have made up my mind to begin it to-day. Has she come to her senses, by any chance? Women usually feel things like that very acutely. But they usually get over ...

— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson

... conquered the simple human nature, and to have attained an equilibrium which cannot be shaken by personal emotions. It does not imply any hardness of heart, or any indifference. It does not imply the exhaustion of sorrow, when the suffering soul seems powerless to suffer acutely any longer; it does not mean the deadness of old age, when emotion is becoming dull because the strings which vibrate to it are wearing out. None of these conditions are fit for a disciple, and if ...

— Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold • Mabel Collins

... in her own room. Her husband passed the hours of every day away from the cottage; sometimes in the company of the doctor, sometimes among his friends in Paris. His wife suffered acutely under the self-imposed state of separation, to which wounded pride and keenly felt resentment compelled her to submit. No friend was near her, in whose compassionate advice she might have token refuge. Not even the sympathy of her ...

— Blind Love • Wilkie Collins

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