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{
"term": "artificial",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "made or produced to copy something natural; not real",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "an artificial limb/flower/sweetener/fertilizer"
},
{
"text": "artificial lighting/light"
},
{
"text": "All food served in the restaurant is completely free from any artificial colours and flavours."
},
{
"text": "I don't like having to do detailed work in artificial light."
},
{
"text": "The patient was kept alive by the artificial heart for nearly two months."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "created by people; not happening naturally",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "A job interview is a very artificial situation."
},
{
"text": "the artificial barriers of race, class and gender"
},
{
"text": "It would be entirely artificial to try and divorce the two issues."
},
{
"text": "They use rather artificial examples."
},
{
"text": "a patently artificial contrivance"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "not what it appears to be",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "artificial emotion"
}
],
"synonyms": "fake",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɑːtɪˈfɪʃl/",
"audio": "ar/artificial/artificial__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɑːrtɪˈfɪʃl/",
"audio": "ar/artificial/artificial__us_3.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French artificiel or Latin artificialis, from artificium ‘handicraft’, based on ars, art- ‘art’ + facere ‘make’."
}