Kindly
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English
Adjective
Kindly (comparative kindlier, superlative kindliest)
- Having a kind personality.
- A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.
Adverb
Kindly (comparative more Kindly, superlative most Kindly)
- In a kind manner, out of kindness.
- He kindly offered to take us to the station in his car.
- (US) Please; used to make a polite request.
- Kindly refrain from walking on the grass.
- Kindly move your car out of the front yard.
- (US) With kind acceptance; used with take.
- I don't take kindly to threats.
- Aunt Daisy didn't take it kindly when we forgot her anniversary.
Notes
- (please): Kindly is used in a slightly more peremptory way than please. It is generally used to introduce a request with which the person addressed is expected to comply, and takes the edge off what would otherwise be a command.
- (with kind acceptance): This sense is a negative polarity item; it is usually found in questions and negative statements, as in the above example sentences.
Synonyms
- (in a kind manner): thoughtfully
- (used to make polite requests): be so kind as to, please
Thesaurus
Christian, Christlike, Christly, accommodating, affable, affably, affectionate, agreeable, agreeably, amiable, amiably, amicable, amicably, ardently, attentive, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, benignantly, benignly, blissfully, breathlessly, brotherly, cheerfully, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, considerate, considerately, cooperative, cordially, courteously, decent, enjoyably, enthusiastically, excitedly, exuberantly, fair, favorable, favorably, fervently, fervidly, fraternal, friendly, generous, generously, genially, glowingly, good, good-hearted, gracious, graciously, gratifyingly, heart and soul, heartily, heatedly, heedfully, hospitably, human, humane, humanely, humanly, impassionedly, indulgent, intensely, keenly, kind, kindhearted, kindheartedly, kindly-disposed, loving, neighborly, nice, nicely, obliging, obligingly, overindulgent, overpermissive, passionately, permissive, pleasantly, please, pleasingly, pleasurably, politely, propitious, satisfyingly, sociable, softhearted, softheartedly, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, tenderheartedly, thoughtful, thoughtfully, vigorously, warm, warmhearted, warmheartedly, warmly, well, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, zealously
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