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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
acutely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acutely/highly embarrassed (=extremely embarrassed)
▪ The government must be acutely embarrassed by the minister’s behaviour.
well/fully/acutely aware
▪ They were well aware that the company was losing money.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aware
▪ It reveals instead a man who is acutely aware of his image.
▪ But repetition is what I am acutely aware of now.
▪ Indeed many of the pluralist writers were acutely aware of inequalities in the distribution of power.
▪ The presence of the baby nurse had made him and Rhoda acutely aware of what a dump they lived in.
▪ She turned over, acutely aware of the man on the other side of the door and angry at her own awareness.
▪ Floyd became acutely aware of the gigantic forces coiled up around him, waiting to be released.
▪ The present generation of young people is acutely aware of the need for a second language.
▪ Brownson himself was acutely aware of the paradox that existed.
conscious
▪ A conveyancer must be acutely conscious of the problems a conflict of interest might impose.
▪ He was at that point of drunkenness where, acutely conscious of it, he made an effort to hide it.
▪ Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face.
▪ We see therefore that the Framers were acutely conscious that the bicameral requirement and the Presentment Clauses would serve essential constitutional functions.
▪ He was acutely conscious of the fact that his life hung on a twitch of his captor's trigger finger.
▪ They are acutely conscious of having failed parental expectations.
▪ Hannah was acutely conscious of Max.
sensitive
▪ In times of war and similar threats we are acutely sensitive of anything that is faintly seditious.
▪ We are acutely sensitive to sedimentary layering, perhaps because of our origins in prehistory?
▪ No more: Mr Clinton won eight western states last November and is acutely sensitive to western politics.
▪ Unfortunately, anxious and stressed people become acutely sensitive to such fluctuations making them worse by their own concern.
▪ All three are acutely sensitive, perceptive musicians.
■ VERB
become
▪ Anxious people become acutely sensitized to their bodies, noticing minor bodily changes upon which they focus.
▪ Floyd became acutely aware of the gigantic forces coiled up around him, waiting to be released.
▪ I became acutely aware of people staring at me from the towpath and from the water itself.
▪ In situations like this, when you are receptive to the point of rawness, you become acutely aware of it.
▪ Unfortunately, anxious and stressed people become acutely sensitive to such fluctuations making them worse by their own concern.
▪ Since the baby nurse had arrived, Kramer had also become acutely aware of the way his wife talked.
▪ Her feelings about this man might be ambiguous to the point of causing insanity, but she became acutely aware of something.
▪ In doses far below those used for anesthetic purposes, ketamine makes normal people become acutely psychotic.
feel
▪ She felt an absolute wreck, yet at the same time she felt acutely self-aware.
▪ In any case the number of dwellings actually completed by 1950 was pathetically small, and housing shortages were felt acutely elsewhere.
▪ The deprivation of family and social ties seem most acute although loss of liberty is also acutely felt.
▪ Whatever she wore, she'd feel acutely self-conscious.
▪ He felt acutely that he lacked the authenticity that the popular vote bestows upon a leader.
▪ They felt acutely the loss of their skilled experience.
▪ Of course Silas knew she was in love with him, she decided, feeling acutely embarrassed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ acutely ill patients
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was acutely aware of everything that had gone on in front of the then roaring fire.
▪ I am acutely aware of a further objection.
▪ In February 1974, they feared acutely that a Labour victory would reverse their achievement.
▪ In Washington his face became so acutely inflamed and swollen that he sought out a local physician.
▪ Katherine was suddenly acutely aware that he sounded boyish, happy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acutely

Acutely \A*cute"ly\, adv. In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

Wiktionary
acutely

adv. In an acute manner

WordNet
acutely

  1. adv. in an acute manner; "she pitied her sister acutely"; "acutely aware"

  2. having a rapid onset; "an acutely debilitating virus" [ant: chronically]

Usage examples of "acutely".

Ashurst remarks that while the cutaneous surface of the stump was acutely sensitive to the touch, there was no manifestation of pain evinced upon handling the exposed nerve.

The hair was so acutely sensitive that the slightest touch occasioned severe pain at the roots.

Then, for the first time, I felt acutely the coolness, motion, and dampness of the surrounding air.

Toward the last I became acutely afraid of West, for he began to look at me that way.

Carter did not at once pursue it, for he knew he might be needed more acutely near the town.

But as I watched from that seaward beach it seemed to me that never had I been aware of it so acutely as now.

I became acutely aware that I was one man among a multitude and that discretion was a thing of greater value than curiosity.

In one instance a young man had slept so close to his camp-fire that the hair from one side of his head was singed completely away, giving him an appearance so strange that he was promptly given a nickname of twenty or more consonant sounds, which, translated, meant: The Man Who is Half Old Because He Is Half Bald--an appellation acutely resented by the young person concerned, who was rather vain and something of a favourite among the girls.

Eliza accepts this possibility with the inherent grace of the acutely underconfident, decides not to mention it until he does.

Inside this strange house, looking for her missing piece, she feels intensely, acutely alive.

He would not be trapped in a chair, the enforced stillness making him acutely conscious of the body separating him from God.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible, and they who feel one thing acutely will so feel another.

But he was acutely aware that Watkins was in a dangerously excited state and that it was necessary, if frustrating, to take the time to calm his fears.

Shaddack was acutely aware of the stench of blood, to which he had somewhat accustomed himself.

Indian made Tommy acutely aware of signs that foretold his great though as yet unspecified-destiny.