| absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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| (adjective) not limited by law | - |
| (adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
| (adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
| acute | (adjective) having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course | - |
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| (adjective) of an angle; less than 90 degrees | - |
| (adjective) of critical importance and consequence | - |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, needlelike, sharp |
| (adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: intense |
| astute | (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: sharp, shrewd |
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| brute | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish |
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| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| cute | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: precious |
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| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cunning |
| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| dilute | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: diluted |
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| dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| hirsute | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hairy |
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| involute | (adjective) (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured | - |
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| (adjective) especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward | Synonyms: rolled |
| irresolute | (adjective) uncertain how to act or proceed | - |
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| minute | (adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination | Synonyms: narrow |
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| (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: infinitesimal |
| mute | (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: silent, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, silent |
| resolute | (adjective) firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by quickness and firmness | Synonyms: unhesitating |
| saute | (adjective) fried quickly in a little fat | Synonyms: sauteed |
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| statute | (adjective) enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: codified |
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| subacute | (adjective) less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it | - |
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| substitute | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: ersatz |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, alternative |
| (adjective) capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team | Synonyms: utility |
| volute | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, voluted, whorled |
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