Translation Spanish English: cortante

1 Spartan, acute, austere, cutting, dangerous, dour, edged, forbidding, grave, grievous, grim, hard, harsh, heavy-handed, inexorable, intemperate, knockout, life-threatening, relentless, rigorous, rough, roughshod, serious, severe, stern, stinging, stringent, terrible, tight, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding, wicked.

2 abrupt, brusk, brusque, curt, precipitous, sharp, short, startling.

3 acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic.

4 acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, acute, bitter, blistering, caustic, cutting, discriminating, edged, hard-hitting, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp, stifling, stinging, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry, trenchant, virulent, vitriolic.

5 acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, cutting, edged, severe, stinging, sulfurous, sulphurous, terrible, virulent, vitriolic, wicked.

6 acuate, acute, alert, alive, apprehensive, awake, bantering, cutting, discerning, discriminating, facetious, high, high-pitched, incisive, inquisitory, intense, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, needlelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, probing, searching, sharp, shrill, stabbing, tongue-in-cheek.

7 acute, bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, cutting, dandy, discriminating, exquisite, great, groovy, incisive, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp, slap-up, smashing, stabbing, swell.

8 acute, biting, bitter, cutting, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, penetrating, penetrative, permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive, piercing, sharp, shrill, stabbing.

9 barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, cutting, edged, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, stabbing, stinging, thorny.

10 barbed, biting, bitter, mordacious, nipping, pungent.

11 biting, bitter, brusk, brusque, curt, cutting, edged, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, short, stabbing, stinging.

12 bleak, cutting, edged, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, raw, stabbing, stinging.

13 bony, brusk, brusque, cadaverous, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dried-up, dry, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, hard, juiceless, pinched, sapless, sear, sec, sere, short, shriveled, shrivelled, skeletal, uncordial, unsweet, wasted, withered.

14 brassy, cheap, cutting, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, jazzy, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, loud, meretricious, piercing, showy, sporty, stabbing, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy.

15 brassy, cheap, cutting, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, loud, meretricious, piercing, sharp, shrill, stabbing, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy.

16 brusk, brusque, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse.

17 brusk, brusque, curt, dry, indifferent, short.

18 brusk, brusque, curt, forgetful, inadequate, light, little, myopic, poor, scant, short, shortsighted, unforesightful, unretentive.

19 cantankerous, crotchety, cutting, edged, ornery, stinging.

20 cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing, wounding.