sharpest
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Definitions ofsharpest
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
Example: "A face with sharp features"
- Intelligent.
Example: "My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old."
- Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Higher in pitch than required.
Example: "The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone."
- Having an intense, acrid flavour.
Example: "Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated."
- Sudden and intense.
Example: "A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions."
- Illegal or dishonest.
Example: "Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books."
- Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
Example: "a sharp dealer; a sharp customer"
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
Example: "You'll need sharp aim to make that shot."
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
Example: "When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out."
- Stylish or attractive.
Example: "You look so sharp in that tuxedo!"
- Observant; alert; acute.
Example: "Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!"
- Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Example: "Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine."
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
Example: "a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve"
- (of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
Example: "Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number."
- Tactical; risky.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
Example: "a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air"
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
Example: "a sharp appetite"
- Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
- Hungry.
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