Acute
Acute adjective - Able to sense slight impressions or differences.
Essential and acute are semantically related in very important topic. In some cases you can use "Essential" instead an adjective "Acute".
Nearby Word: acutely
Both words in one sentence
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Poe was an acute critic who passed the essential test of perceiving who of his own contemporaries were talented: he was very positive about Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Dickens and cautiously approving about Longfellow, but less gifted writers he gleefully beat into a fine paste.
Source: Creator / Edgar Allan Poe
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