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sharp

English

  1. 🔊 having or made by a thin edge or sharp point
    “a sharp knife”
  2. 🔊 keenly and painfully felt
    “a sharp pain”
  3. 🔊 quick and forceful
    “a sharp blow”
  4. 🔊 very sudden and in great amount or degree
    “a sharp drop in the stock market”
  5. 🔊 (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
    “C sharp”
  6. 🔊 harsh
    “sharp criticism”
  7. 🔊 marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
    “a smart businessman”
  8. 🔊 (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
    “a sharp photographic image”
  9. 🔊 having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
    “a shrill whistle”
  10. 🔊 extremely steep
    “an abrupt canyon”
  11. 🔊 ending in a sharp point
  12. 🔊 having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
    “an acute observer of politics and politicians”
  13. 🔊 a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
  14. 🔊 a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
  15. 🔊 changing suddenly in direction and degree
    “the road twists sharply after the light”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 afilado sharp
  2. 🔊 filoso sharp
  3. 🔊 filudo sharp
  4. 🔊 sostenido sharp
  5. 🔊 ácido sharp, tart
  6. 🔊 cortopunzante sharp, pointed
  7. 🔊 punzante sharp, biting (pain)
  8. 🔊 trucha sharp, clever, cunning
  9. 🔊 punzante sharp, prickly (object)
  10. 🔊 agudo sharp, stabbing, acute, severe
  11. 🔊 agudo sharp, pointed, acute (terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily)

Similar words

astute shrewd crisp abrupt precipitous shrill acute discriminating incisive keen knifelike penetrating penetrative piercing sharp-worded tart acuate acute needlelike sharply acutely admirable crichton attic machiavellian