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{
"term": "striking",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "interesting and unusual enough to attract attention",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a striking feature"
},
{
"text": "She bears **a striking resemblance** to her older sister."
},
{
"text": "**In striking contrast to** their brothers, the girls were both intelligent and charming."
},
{
"text": "The similarities between the two cases are striking."
},
{
"text": "The picture was striking in its simplicity."
},
{
"text": "What is immediately striking is how resourceful the children are."
},
{
"text": "The painting is a striking example of nineteenth-century portraiture."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "very attractive, often in an unusual way",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "striking good looks"
},
{
"text": "She was undoubtedly a very striking young woman."
},
{
"text": "That hat looks very striking."
}
],
"topics": ["Appearance"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["in"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈstraɪkɪŋ/",
"audio": "st/striking/striking__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈstraɪkɪŋ/",
"audio": "st/striking/striking__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}