'Kind' definitions:
Definition of 'kind'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior; "kind to sick patients"; "a kind master"; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"; "thanked her for her kind letter" [ant: unkind]
adjective
Agreeable, conducive to comfort; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"; "the genial sunshine";"hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet" [syn: kind, genial]
adjective
Tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke" [syn: kind, tolerant]
noun
Definition of 'Kind'
From: GCIDE
- Kind \Kind\ (k[imac]nd), a. [Compar. Kinder (k[imac]nd"[~e]r); superl. Kindest.] [AS. cynde, gecynde, natural, innate, prop. an old p. p. from the root of E. kin. See Kin kindred.]
- 1. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. [1913 Webster]
- Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious. [1913 Webster]
- He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil. --Luke vi 35. [1913 Webster]
- O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. "Manners so kind, yet stately." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
- Syn: Benevolent; benign; beneficent; bounteous; gracious; propitious; generous; forbearing; indulgent; tender; humane; compassionate; good; lenient; clement; mild; gentle; bland; obliging; friendly; amicable. See Obliging. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Kind'
From: GCIDE
- Kind \Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, a.]
- 1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7. [1913 Webster]
- She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. [1913 Webster]
- How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I Cor. xv. 39. [1913 Webster]
- Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.
- In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. [1913 Webster]
- Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. --Arbuthnot.
- Syn: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Kind'
From: GCIDE
- Kind \Kind\, v. t. [See Kin.] To beget. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'kind'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Christian,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- 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