{
    "term": "similar",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "like somebody/something but not exactly the same",
            "sensetop": "similar to somebody/somethingsimilar in something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We have very similar interests."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The experiment was repeated, with **similar results**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I came across a **similar situation** last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The brothers **look** very **similar**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The three portraits are **remarkably similar**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My teaching style is similar to that of most other teachers.",
                    "contextForm": "similar to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The case is **strikingly similar** to another case from the 1990s."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two houses are similar in size.",
                    "contextForm": "similar in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All the narratives follow a **similar pattern**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The disease attacks the immune system **in a similar way** to AIDS."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She easily won today, and hopes to carry on **in a similar vein** tomorrow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stir the paint with a piece of wood or **something similar**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The scene in the picture was eerily similar to what I had seen in my dream."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their experiences are superficially similar."
                },
                {
                    "text": "countries with broadly similar characteristics"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All our patients have broadly similar problems."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["in", "to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪmələ(r)/",
                "audio": "si/similar/similar__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪmələr/",
                "audio": "si/similar/similar__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (also as a term in anatomy meaning ‘homogeneous’): from French similaire or medieval Latin similaris, from Latin similis ‘like’."
}