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acute

/əˈkjuːt/

US pronunciation
American sound/əˈkjuːt/
əˈkjuːt
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

ə - ˈkjuːt -> acute

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အထူးတလည် [ဖြစ်သော]။ ကြီးမား[သော]။ စူးရှသော။ ကြီးစွာသော။ ထက်မြက်သော။ (အနာရောဂါ) အထူးစိုးရိမ်ဖွယ်ရာ အဆင့် ရှိသော။ အသည်းအသန် ဖြစ်သော။

Full entry

acute /ǝ'kju:t / adj

၁။ အထူးတလည် [ဖြစ်သော]။ ကြီးမား[သော]။ suffer acute hardship ❍ There's an acute shortage of water.
၂။ (က) စူးရှသော။ Dogs have an acute sense of smell ❍ suffer acute pain. (ခ) ကြီးစွာသော။ suffer acute embarrassment/remorse. (ဂ) ထက်မြက်သော။ He is an acute observer of the social scene ❍ Her judgement is acute.
၃။ (အနာရောဂါ) အထူးစိုးရိမ်ဖွယ်ရာ အဆင့် ရှိသော။ အသည်းအသန် ဖြစ်သော။ acute appendicitis ❍ an acute patient.
❏ acute accent n သရအက္ခရာ၌တင်သော အသံပြသင်္ကေတ။ (-´ ) as in café.
❏ acute angle n ထောင့်ကျဉ်း။
❏ acutely adv အထူး။ အလွန်။ အထူးတလည်။ I am acutely aware of the difficulties we face. acuteness n [U]

More examples
  • An acute shortage of medical supplies
  • An acute ear infection
  • An acute sense of smell
  • Her acute observations on life and love
Synonyms
sharp, sensitive, keen, heightened, finely tuned, discriminating, delicate, acicular, aciculate, acuminate, acuminous, afflictive, astute, canny, clever, critical, crucial, cuspate, cuspidate, cutting, dangerous, decisive, deeply perceptive, desperate, dire, discerning, distressing, essential, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, grave, important, incisive, ingenious, insightful, intelligent, intense, intuitive, judicious, knifelike, needle-shaped, observant, overpowering, overwhelming, peaked, penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, piercing, piked, poignant, pointed, powerful, quick-witted, racking, serious, severe, sharpened, shooting, shrewd, smart, spiked, stabbing, strong, subtle, sudden, urgent, very important, violent, vital
Antonyms
blunt, calm, dense, dull, forthright, honest, ignorant, imperceptive, insensitive, kind, mild, moderate, not serious, obtuse, pleasant, slow, soothing, stupid, trivial, unimportant
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