ALL meanings of kind
kind
K k - adjective kind friendly 1
- adjective kind benevolent 1
- adjective kind warm, compassionate 1
- adjective kind act, gesture: courteous 1
- adjective kind treatment: gentle 1
- noun kind type, variety 1
- noun kind class 1
- adjective kind of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person: a kind and loving person. 1
- adjective kind having, showing, or proceeding from benevolence: kind words. 1
- adjective kind indulgent, considerate, or helpful; humane (often followed by to): to be kind to animals. 1
- adjective kind mild; gentle; clement: kind weather. 1
- adjective kind British Dialect. loving; affectionate. 1
- noun kind a class or group of individual objects, people, animals, etc., of the same nature or character, or classified together because they have traits in common; category: Our dog is the same kind as theirs. 1
- noun kind nature or character as determining likeness or difference between things: These differ in degree rather than in kind. 1
- noun kind a person or thing as being of a particular character or class: He is a strange kind of hero. 1
- noun kind a more or less adequate or inadequate example of something; sort: The vines formed a kind of roof. 1
- noun kind Archaic. the nature, or natural disposition or character. manner; form. 1
- noun kind Obsolete. gender; sex. 1
- idioms kind in kind, in something of the same kind or in the same way as that received or borne: They will be repaid in kind for their rudeness. in goods, commodities, or services rather than money: In colonial times, payment was often made in kind. 1
- idioms kind kind of, Informal. to some extent; somewhat; rather: The room was kind of dark. 1
- idioms kind of a kind, of the same class, nature, character, etc.: They are two of a kind. 1
- noun kind Having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature. 1
- noun kind The phrase these (or those) kind of, followed by a plural noun (these kind of flowers; those kind of shoes) is frequently condemned as ungrammatical because it is said to combine a plural demonstrative (these; those) with a singular noun, kind. Historically, kind is an unchanged or unmarked plural noun like deer, folk, sheep, and swine, and the construction these kind of is an old one, occurring in the writings of Shakespeare, Swift, Jane Austen, and, in modern times, Jimmy Carter and Winston Churchill. Kind has also developed the plural kinds, evidently because of the feeling that the old pattern was incorrect. These kind of nevertheless persists in use, especially in less formal speech and writing. In edited, more formal prose, this kind of and these kinds of are more common. Sort of has been influenced by the use of kind as an unchanged plural: these sort of books. This construction too is often considered incorrect and appears mainly in less formal speech and writing. Kind (or sort) of as an adverbial modifier meaning “somewhat” occurs in informal speech and writing: Sales have been kind (or sort) of slow these last few weeks. 1
- countable noun kind If you talk about a particular kind of thing, you are talking about one of the types or sorts of that thing. 0
- countable noun kind If you refer to someone's kind, you are referring to all the other people that are like them or that belong to the same class or set. 0
- adjective kind Someone who is kind behaves in a gentle, caring, and helpful way towards other people. 0
- adjective kind You can use kind in expressions such as please be so kind as to and would you be kind enough to in order to ask someone to do something in a firm but polite way. 0
- graded adjective kind Something that is kind emphasizes the good qualities in something, and perhaps makes it appear better than it really is. 0
- adjective kind having a friendly or generous nature or attitude 0
- adjective kind helpful to others or to another 0
- adjective kind considerate or humane 0
- adjective kind cordial; courteous (esp in the phrase kind regards) 0
- adjective kind pleasant; agreeable; mild 0
- adjective kind beneficial or not harmful 0
- adjective kind loving 0
- noun kind a class or group having characteristics in common; sort; type 0
- noun kind an instance or example of a class or group, esp a rudimentary one 0
- noun kind essential nature or character 0
- noun kind gender or sex 0
- noun kind nature; the natural order 0
- noun kind origin 0
- noun kind nature 0
- noun kind manner; way 0
- noun kind a natural group or division [the rodent kind] 0
- noun kind essential character 0
- noun kind sort; variety; class 0
- adjective kind sympathetic, friendly, gentle, tenderhearted, generous, etc. 0
- adjective kind cordial 0
- adjective kind loving; affectionate 0
- adjective kind natural; native 0