{
    "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’."
}