acute
adjective
sharp or severe in effect; intense.
superacute
-
a word derived from
acute.
Example Sentences
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A cochlear implant sounds useful,” wrote SRSwain from Costa Rica. ”A spinal cord bypass to operate prosthetic limbs, or superacute hearing and vision, but magical transformation of memories and sensoria: No thanks.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
He lifted his head suddenly, thinking, in his superacute state of mind, that he had heard a noise.
From The Plunderer by Douglas Duer
His mind was singularly clear and his senses rendered superacute, and he set himself to consider what he had best do.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
These superacute feelings seemed to be tearing at his very heartstrings, until he felt that he could no longer lie on the miserable palliasse which in these squalid lodgings did duty for a bed.
From El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
A voice, the voice of Ramiro del' Orca—I knew it upon the instant—reached my ears which concentration had rendered superacute.
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini
