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What's The Definition Of Kind?
[n] a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
[adj] generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an openhearted gift to charity" [adj] conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet" [adj] showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed thoughtful attention" [adj] tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke" [adj] liberal; "kind words of praise" [adj] helpful to other people; "helping an old lady with her bundles was his kind deed for the day" [adj] agreeable; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics" [adj] characterized by mercy, and compassion; "compassionate toward disadvantaged people"; "kind to animals"; "a humane judge" [adj] 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" [adj] expressing sympathy Synonyms | Synonyms for Kind: benevolent | benign | benignant | charitable | considerate | forgiving | form | generous | genial | gentle | good | good-hearted | gracious | helpful | hospitable | humane | kindhearted | kindly | merciful | openhearted | sort | sympathetic | thoughtful | tolerant | variety Related Terms | Find terms related to Kind: 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 | goodly | good-natured | good-tempered | 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 | longanimous | long-suffering | 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 | warmhearted | warm-hearted | way | well-affected | well-disposed | well-intentioned | well-meaning | well-meant See Also | antitype | art form | brand | category | color | colour | description | flavor | flavour | genre | genus | good-natured | ilk | make | manner | model | soft | species | style | the like | the likes of | type Kind In Webster's Dictionary \Kind\, a. [Compar. {Kinder}; 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.
It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth
the kind taste. --Holland.
2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial;
sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he
bore to learning was his fault. --Goldsmith.
3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and
confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining;
benevolent; benignant; gracious.
He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil. --Luke
vi 35.
O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to
the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick.
4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness,
gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. ``Manners so
kind, yet stately.'' --Tennyson.
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}.
\Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See {Kind}, a.] 1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.] He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer. Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden. 2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. ``Come of so low a kind.'' --Chaucer. Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7. She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth. Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. --Emerson. 3. Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser. There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I Cor. xv. 39. Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers ? --Bacon. {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. Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. --Arbuthnot. Syn: Sort; species; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set. \Kind\, v. t. [See {Kin}.] To beget. [Obs.] --Spenser. |
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