Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sharp, as a taste; shrill, as a sound.
  • Subtle; ingenious; sagacious; shrewd; keen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Sharp; shrill.
  • adjective Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective literary Sharp, perceptive, shrewd.

Etymologies

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From Latin argutus, past participle of arguere ‘clarify’.

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