Adjective
1. acute
2. discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp, perceptive, shrill
3. sharp, high, high-pitched, cutting
4. keen, knifelike, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating, sharp, incisive
5. sharp, cacophonous
6. cacophonic
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