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{
"term": "tidy",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "arranged neatly and with everything in order",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a tidy desk"
},
{
"text": "She **keeps** her flat very **tidy**."
},
{
"text": "I like everything to be **neat and tidy**."
},
{
"text": "The room was clean and tidy."
},
{
"text": "The place has never looked so tidy."
},
{
"text": "It was a neatly furnished and immaculately tidy room."
},
{
"text": "She admired the incredibly tidy garden."
},
{
"text": "Why does nothing ever stay tidy around here?"
},
{
"text": "When we had finished the churchyard looked far tidier."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"phrases": ["clean and tidy", "neat and tidy"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "keeping things neat and in order",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm a tidy person."
},
{
"text": "He is obsessively tidy."
},
{
"text": "tidy habits"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"phrases": ["clean and tidy", "neat and tidy"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a tidy amount of money is fairly large",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It must have cost a tidy sum."
},
{
"text": "a tidy profit"
}
],
"synonyms": "considerable"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪdi/",
"audio": "ti/tidy/tidy__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪdi/",
"audio": "ti/tidy/tidy__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from the noun tide + -y. The original meaning was ‘timely, opportune’; it later had various senses expressing approval, usually of a person, including ‘attractive’, ‘healthy’, and ‘skilful’; the sense ‘orderly, neat’ dates from the early 18th cent."
}