Vocabulary
Acute
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of an unpleasant or unwelcome situation or phenomenon) present or experienced to a severe or intense degree.
Urdu meaning
شدید، روشن دماغ، تیز
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- These challenges are of an acute nature and require an immediate medical response.
- For Pakistan, the dilemma is acute.
- But contemporary forms of capitalist agriculture, urban sprawl in the form of real estate-isation as well as newer colonial modalities like mineral, land, forest and water grabs in `dry` rural zones have made the class war even more acute.
- Malnutrition and death stalk the Strip as the UN says that one in five households, some half a million Gaza Palestinians, are facing an acute food and nutrition deficit, and one in three children or more are acutely malnourished.
- I had just joined UNDP Pakistan and the country was facing concurrent, acute challenges the aftermath of devastating floods, a balance-of-payments crisis, pockets of insecurity and a complex political transition on the horizon.
Synonyms
severe, critical, drastic, dire, dreadful, terrible, awful, grave, bad, serious
Curator example
“an acute housing shortage”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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