SHARP Copy link • SHARPPROP., Of the senses, acutus: sagax (having a fine sense of hearing or smelling, sagacious). OBS., oculi acuti; oculi acres et acuti: visus acer; acer videndi sensus: nares aculae; nasus sagax: aures acutae. Of the mental faculties, acutus (quick): acer (vigorous, penetrating): subtilis (fine, discriminating accurately): argutus (over-acute, making too fine distinctions): perspicax (clear-sighted). A sharp understanding, ingenium acre or acutum; mens acris: very sharp, peracutus, peracer: to be very sharp, acutissimo, acerrimo esse ingenio; ingenii acumine valere. Violent, severe, acerbus; gravis. Sharp want, summa egestas, mendicitas: sharp hatred, acerbum odium: sharp cold, frigus acerbum. Biting, cutting, reproachful, acerbus: amarus: mordax: aculeatus. Sharp words, voces contumeliosae, contumeliarum aculei: a sharp letter, litterae aculeatae: to use sharp language to anybody, aliquem gravissimis verborum acerbitatibus afficere.