Word Meanings - ACUTELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
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- SHARPLY
In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon. - ACUTE-ANGLED
Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. - ACUTE
Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle , an angle less than a right angle. Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp- - KEENLY
In a keen manner. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - ACUTENESS
Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. (more info) 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle. - ACUTELY
In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination. - DISCRIMINATION
The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service. A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley. 4. The quality of being discriminating; - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - PERACUTE
Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. Harvey. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - INDISCRIMINATION
Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - SUBACUTE
Moderalely acute.