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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, gnawing, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, knifelike, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, shooting, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
| Main Entry: | acute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, intense |
| Synonyms: | cutting, distressing, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, keen, overpowering, overwhelming, piercing, poignant, powerful, racking, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, sudden, violent |
| Notes: | acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration acute is an angle of less than 90 degrees; obtuse is one of more than 90 degrees chronic is contrasted with acute as chronic pain persists over a longer period of time than acute pain and is resistant to most medical treatments |
| Main Entry: | excruciating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | torturous, painful |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, burning, chastening, consuming, exquisite, extreme, grueling, harrowing, insufferable, intense, piercing, punishing, racking, rending, searing, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, tearing, tormenting, torturesome, torturing, unbearable, unendurable, violent |
| Antonyms: | bearable, endurable, helpful, pleasant, pleasing, soothing |
| Main Entry: | piercing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense to the senses |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, arctic, biting, bitter, blaring, cold, deafening, earsplitting, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, freezing, frosty, high, high-pitched, keen, knifelike, loud, numbing, painful, penetrating, powerful, racking, raw, roaring, severe, sharp, shattering, shooting, shrill, stabbing, stentorian, stentorious, thin, treble, wintry |
| Antonyms: | low, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, intense |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, biting, cutting, distinct, distressing, drilling, excruciating, fierce, keen, knifelike, painful, paralyzing, penetrating, piercing, shooting, smart, sore, stabbing, stinging, violent |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, bitter in speech |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, angry, barbed, biting, caustic, cutting, double-edged, harsh, incisive, inconsiderate, penetrating, peppery, piercing, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, severe, short, stabbing, stinging, tart, thoughtless, trenchant, unceremonious, ungracious, virulent, vitriolic |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | virulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, antagonistic, bitter, cutting, hateful, malevolent, malicious, rancorous, resentful, scathing, sharp, spiteful, splenetic, stabbing, unfriendly, venomous, vicious, vindictive, vitriolic |
| Antonyms: | gentle, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | penetration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | act of entering |
| Synonyms: | diffusion, entrance, forcing, infiltration, ingress, insertion, invasion, osmosis, perforation, piercing, punching, seepage, stabbing, thrusting |
| Antonyms: | departure, egress, evacuation |
| Main Entry: | knifelike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sharp |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, gnawing, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, shooting, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stabbing, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
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