acuted
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of acute
adj
Of a written word: exhibiting acute accent.
adj
Of a pronounced word: exhibiting a language-specific type of pitch accent or tone characterized by an acute accent mark in the respective language transcription or orthography.
Example Sentences
- "I do not suppose the Greeks altered the letters in exactly the same way, but rather that their acuted οί inclined toward the modern sound, or that the Ο was attenuated or altogether lost in it. The diphthong in unaccented syllables probably resembled the acuted rather than the circumflex; for before an enclitic it can only assume the acute accent."