{
    "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."
}