Kind

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of a friendly, generous, or warm-hearted nature.
  • adj. Showing sympathy or understanding; charitable: a kind word.
  • adj. Humane; considerate: kind to animals.
  • adj. Forbearing; tolerant: Our neighbor was very kind about the window we broke.
  • adj. Generous; liberal: kind words of praise.
  • adj. Agreeable; beneficial: a dry climate kind to asthmatics.
  • n. A group of individuals or instances sharing common traits; a category or sort: different kinds of furniture; a new kind of politics.
  • n. A doubtful or borderline member of a given category: fashioned a kind of shelter; a kind of bluish color.
  • n. Archaic Underlying character as a determinant of the class to which a thing belongs; nature or essence.
  • n. Archaic The natural order or course of things; nature.
  • n. Archaic Manner or fashion.
  • idiom. all kinds of Informal Plenty of; ample: We have all kinds of time to finish the job.
  • idiom. in kind With produce or commodities rather than with money: pay in kind.
  • idiom. in kind In the same manner or with an equivalent: returned the slight in kind.
  • idiom. kind of Informal Rather; somewhat: I'm kind of hungry.
  • idiom. of a kind Of the same kind; alike: My father and my uncle are two of a kind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Affectionate, showing benevolence.
  • adj. Favorable.
  • adj. mild, gentle, forgiving
  • n. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
  • n. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
  • n. One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
  • n. Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in a barter.
  • n. Equivalent means used as response to an action.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
  • adj. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic
  • adj. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
  • adj. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence.
  • adj. Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
  • n. Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
  • n. Race; genus; species; generic class.
  • n. Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description
  • v. To beget.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 1. Native; natural; characteristic; proper to the genus, species, or individual.
  • Of a sympathetic nature or disposition; beneficently disposed: good-hearted; considerate and tender in the treatment of others; benevolent; benignant.
  • Loving; affectionate; full of tenderness; caressing.
  • Marked by sympathetic feeling; proceeding from goodness of heart; amiable; obliging: considerate: as, a kind act; kind treatment; kind regards.
  • Of a favorable character or quality; propitious; serviceable; adaptable; tractable: as, kind weather; a horse kind in harness.
  • = Syn. 2 and 3. Gracious, Good-natured, etc. (see benignant); Kindly, etc. (see kindly); benign, beneficent, bounteous, generous, indulgent, tender, humane, compassionate, good, lenient, clement, mild, gentle, bland, friendly, amicable.
  • n. Nature; natural constitution or character.
  • n. Natural disposition, propensity, bent, or characteristic.
  • n. Natural descent.
  • n. A class; a sort; a species; a number of individual objects having common characters peculiar to them.
  • n. In a loose use, a variety; a particular variation or variant: as, a kind of low fever. See kind of, below.
  • n. Gender; sex.
  • n. Specific manner or way; method of action or operation.
  • n. Race; family; stock; descent; a line of individuals related as parent or ancestor and child or descendant.
  • n. Blood-relationship.
  • n. Also, in phrases like what kind of a thing is this? he is a poor kind of fellow (that is, a thing of what kind, a fellow of a poor kind), kind of has come to seem like an adjective element before the noun, and hence before a plural noun, after words like some, all, and especially these and those, it sometimes keeps the singular form: as, these kind of people. This inaccuracy is very old, and still far from rare, both in speaking and in writing; but good usage condemns it.
  • n. Synonyms Sort, Kind (see sort); breed, species, set, family, description.
  • To beget.
  • n. A cricket.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
  • adj. having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior
  • adj. agreeable, conducive to comfort
  • adj. tolerant and forgiving under provocation
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    unfeeling    unkind    fierce    cruel    hateful   
    Form
    in kind    kinda    kind of   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    friendly    good    beneficent    benevolent    propitious    lenient    gracious    generous    obliging    bounteous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    affined    aligned    assigned    behind    bind    blind    combined    confined    consigned    declined   
    Unknown
    Movies & Film    Television    Humor    Books   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sort    number    manner    love    variety    lot    description    story    means    church