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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Possessing or displaying perceptions of great accuracy and sensitivity: incisive, keen1, penetrating, perceptive, probing, sensitive, sharp, trenchant. See CAREFUL, SHARP. 2. So serious as to be at the point of crisis or necessary to resolve a crisis: climacteric, critical, crucial, desperate, dire. See SAFETY. 3. Music. Elevated in pitch: high, high-pitched, piercing, piping, shrieky, shrill, shrilly, treble. See HIGH, SOUNDS. 4. Having an end that tapers to a point: acicular, aciculate, aciculated, acuminate, cuspate, cuspated, cuspidate, cuspidated, mucronate, pointed, pointy, sharp. See SHARP. 5. Marked by severity or intensity: gnawing, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, sharp, shooting, stabbing. See BIG.
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