acuto-, acut-, acuti-, acu-, -cusis +

Having acute angles; acute-angled.

1. Having a sharp point.
2. Keen or quick of mind, shrewd.
3. Severe and sharp, as pain.
4. Of great importance or consequence; crucial: "an acute lack of financial resources."
5. In geometry, designating angles less than 90 degrees.

1. Having a sharp point: "Angles of less than 90 degrees are called acute angles."
2. Extremely severe and sharp; as an “acute pain”: "She had an acute headache." "He is suffering from acute appendicitis."
3. Keenly perceptive or discerning, ingenious: "Einstein is said to have been a man of uncommonly acute intelligence."

1. Of senses and feelings: Keenly, delicately; sharply, poignantly.
2. Of the mental faculties: With ready or quick apprehension, with keen penetration, shrewdly.
3. Of things material: Sharply.

1. Of things material: Sharpness of point or edge.
2. Of a disease or pain: Sharpness, keenness.
3. Of sounds: Shrillness, high pitch.
4. Of the senses or feelings: Keenness, quickness, sensitiveness.

Acute-angled.

Pertaining to or having projecting ribs.

Sharp-leaved.

Sharp tongued.

Sharp-lobed.

Somewhat acute.

A form of divination that uses pins.

Diviners use seven sharp objects which fall on a table and the patterns are read. Acutomanzia usually includes thirteen pins are used, ten of them are straight and the remainder bent. The pins (or needles) are shaken and when they fall on a table covered with a light film of talcum-powder, their formations in the powder and their positions are studied for possible revelations about the future.

1. A fever; such as, from malaria; which is marked by paroxysms of chills, fever, and sweating recurring at regular intervals.
2. A fit of shivering, a chill; therefore, ague can refer to both chills and fevers.

Aigue entered English usage in the 14th century, having crossed the English channel from the Middle French aguë.

The word shares the same origin as acute. It comes from the Latin acutus, "sharp or pointed". A fievre aigue in French was a sharp, pointed, or acute fever.

1. A replica of an intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
2. A condition in which there is a cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever; such as, a fever and ague.

1. Producing, resembling, or resulting from ague.
2. Easily affected by or subject to fits of ague.
3. Shaking; quivering.
4. Chilly; somewhat cold or shivering; also, having the qualities of an ague.