Chapter Acetic acid to Additional of A by Soule's Synonymes

2. Keen, shrewd, discerning, knowing, quick, sharp, smart, bright, sage, sagacious, intelligent, astute, ingenious, subtle, penetrating, piercing, clear-sighted, sharp-witted, long-headed.

3. Severe, violent, intense, poignant, distressing, fierce, piercing, exquisite, pungent.

4. High, shrill, high-toned.

5. (Med.) Sudden, violent, temporary, limited, not chronic.

Acuteness, n.

1. Sharpness, pointedness.

2. Acumen, shrewdness, penetration, sagacity, sagaciousness, astuteness, sharpness, brightness, perspicacity, discernment, ingenuity, mother-wit, quick parts.

3. Severity, intensity, poignancy, violence.

4. Highness, shrillness.

Adage, n. Proverb, saying, saw, dictum, aphorism, apothegm, maxim, by-word, sententious precept.

Adamant, n. Diamond, crystallized carbon, infrangible mineral, indestructible stone, eternal rock.

Adamantean, a. Adamantine, hard as adamant, very hard, infrangible, indestructible, imperishable.

Adamantine, a.

1. Made of adamant.

2. Adamantean, very hard, hard as adamant.

Adam’s-needle, n. Yucca, bear-grass, Spanish bayonet.

Adapt, v. a. Adjust, accommodate, suit, proportion, qualify, prepare, fit, temper, fashion, match, make, conform, make conformable or suitable.

Adaptability, n. Adaptableness, suitableness. See adaptation.

Adaptation, n.

1. Fitness, suitableness, appropriateness, aptness, adaptability, conformableness, conformability, accommodation, harmony.

2. Fitting, process or act of fitting, adjustment, accommodation, suiting, etc. See adapt.