Kind
English
Adjective
Kind (comparative Kinder, superlative Kindest)
- Affectionate, showing benevolence.
- Favorable.
- mild, gentle, forgiving
- The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
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- See also Thesaurus:affectionate
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Noun
Kind (plural Kinds)- A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
- What kind of a person are you?
- This is a strange kind of tobacco.
- A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
- The opening served as a kind of window.
- 1884, Mark Twain , The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Chapter VIII
- I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.
- (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
- why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayne, for they dyd but their kynde [...].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
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(1) and/or (2)
- generation
- offspring
- child
- See also Thesaurus:class
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Noun
Kind (uncountable)- Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in a barter.
- to pay in kind
- Equivalent means used as response to an action.
- I'll pay in kind for his insult.
Notes
Used almost exclusively with "in" in expression in kind.
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Adjectives for Kind
refractory; voracious; abstracted; unexpected; corresponding; literal; positive; unworthy; fraternal; direst; various (pi); wondrous; honey-gathering; tingling; haphazard; curious; mortal; fascinating; heavier; weakest; baser; unlike; particular; noblest; sprightliest; restless; elaborate; expensive; barbarous; branching; peculiar; indifferent; unsatisfied; awful; lonesome; effectual; defensive; increasing; adventurous; equivocal.
Adverbs for Kind
usly; generously; hospitably; helpfully; unexpectedly; extremely; exceedingly; habitually; naturally; indulgently; gently; mistakenly; thoughtfully; lovingly; unaffectedly; effusively; officiously; sincerely; cordially; unspeakably; unusually; uncommonly; openly; apparently; noticeably; unselfishly; sympathetically; amiably; affably; unwontedly; considerately; humanely; complaisantly.
Thesaurus
Christian, Christlike, Christly, accommodating, advantageous, affable, affectionate, agreeable, altruistic, amiable, amicable, animal kingdom, approachable, auspicious, beneficent, beneficial, benevolent, benign, benignant, blood, body-build, bon, bonny, brand, braw, breed, brood, brotherly, bueno, capital, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, charitable, clan, class, clement, cogent, color, commendable, compassionate, complaisant, complexion, compliant, composition, conciliatory, congenial, considerate, constituents, constitution, cooperative, cordial, courteous, crasis, decent, deme, denomination, description, designation, dharma, diathesis, disposition, eleemosynary, elegant, estimable, ethos, excellent, expedient, fair, family, famous, favorable, feather, fiber, fine, folk, forbearing, forgiving, form, frame, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, generous, genial, genius, genre, gens, gentle, genus, good, good-hearted, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, goodly, gracious, grain, grand, habit, harmonious, healthy, helpful, house, hue, human, humane, humanitarian, humor, humors, ilk, indulgent, kidney, kin, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, label, laudable, lenient, line, lineage, long-suffering, longanimous, lot, loving, magnanimous, make, makeup, manner, mark, matriclan, merciful, mold, nation, nature, neighborlike, neighborly, nice, noble, number, obliging, openhearted, order, overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, patriclan, peaceable, people, permissive, persuasion, philanthropic, phratry, phyle, phylum, physique, placable, plant kingdom, pleasant, profitable, property, propitious, quality, race, regal, responsive, royal, sept, shape, simpatico, sisterly, skillful, sociable, softhearted, somatotype, sort, sound, sparing, species, spirit, splendid, stamp, stem, stirps, stock, strain, streak, stripe, style, suchness, sweet-tempered, sympathetic, sympathique, sympathizing, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tender, tenderhearted, tenor, the like of, the likes of, thoughtful, tolerant, tone, totem, tribe, type, understanding, unhostile, unresentful, unrevengeful, useful, valid, variety, vein, very good, virtuous, warm, warm-hearted, warmhearted, way, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Old English cynde, cynd (“generation”)
Etymology 2
From kine (“cattle”), from Middle English kyn, from Old English cȳna, when cattle were a means of exchange.
Compare capital and chattel, which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
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- 15px Kind in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Danish
Noun
Kind c. (singular definite Kinden, plural indefinite Kinder)
Etymology
From Old Norse kinn, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenu- (“cheek”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ken/, [kʰenˀ]
Inflection
Dutch
Noun
Kind n. (plural kinderen, diminutive kindje, diminutive plural kindjes)
- child, kid, non-adult human
- descendant, still a minor or irrespective of age
- In sommige patriarchale tradities blijven kinderen levenslang onvoorwaardelijk onderworpen aan het vaderlijk gezag, zoals aanvankelijk in het Oude Rome, in andere houdt een zoon op kind te zijn door zijn eigen gezin te stichten
- In certain patriarchal traditions, children remain subject to unconditional paternal authority for life, as originally in Ancient Rome, in other ones a son ceases to be a child by founding his own family
- In sommige patriarchale tradities blijven kinderen levenslang onvoorwaardelijk onderworpen aan het vaderlijk gezag, zoals aanvankelijk in het Oude Rome, in andere houdt een zoon op kind te zijn door zijn eigen gezin te stichten
- (figuratively) product of influence, breeding etc.
Etymology
From Middle Dutch kint, from Old Dutch kint, from Proto-Germanic *kindan (“offspring”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁tóm (“that which is produced, that which is given birth to”), substantivised form of *ǵenh₁tós (“produced, given birth”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, to give birth”). Cognate with Latin genitus.
Pronunciation
Notes
In compounds, the stem of this word can be the irregular form kinder- or the more regular form kind-. The former is used more often, however.
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- (descendant) afstammeling, telg
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Icelandic
Noun
Kind f. (genitive singular kindar, plural kindur)
- (obsolete) race, kind, kin
- a sheep (especially a ewe)
- (dated) used as a term of disparagement for a girl (or woman)
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Etymology
From Old Norse kind, from Proto-Germanic *kindō, cognate with Latin gēns (“clan, tribe”). The sense of “sheep” is derived from the compound sauðkind, literally “sheep-kind”.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /cʰɪnt/
- Rhymes: -ɪnt
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Swedish
Noun
Kind c.
Declension
Etymology
From Old Norse kinn, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenu- (“cheek”).
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