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Kindly

Kindly Meaning & Definition
Kindly Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Kindly?

[adv] in a kind manner or out of kindness; "He spoke kindly to the boy"; "she kindly overlooked the mistake"
[adj] generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an openhearted gift to charity"
[adj] pleasant and agreeable; "a kindly climate"; "kindly breeze"
[adj] showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Kindly: benevolent | benign | benignant | charitable | good | good-hearted | kind | openhearted | sympathetic

Related Terms | Find terms related to Kindly: accommodating | affable | affably | affectionate | agreeable | agreeably | amiable | amiably | amicable | amicably | ardently | attentive | beneficent | benevolent | benign | benignant | benignantly | benignly | blissfully | breathlessly | brotherly | cheerfully | Christian | Christlike | Christly | 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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Kindly In Webster's Dictionary

\Kind"ly\, a. [Compar. {Kindlier}; superl. {Kindliest}.] [AS. cyndelic. See {Kind}, n. ] 1. According to the kind or nature; natural. [R.] The kindly fruits of the earth. --Book of Com. Prayer. An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting. --Spenser. Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men. --L. Andrews. 2. Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . Has made me kindly with my kind. --Tennyson. 3. Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent. In soft silence shed the kindly shower. --Pope. Should e'er a kindlier time ensue. --Wordsworth. Note: ``Nothing ethical was connoted in kindly once: it was simply the adjective of kind. But it is God's ordinance that kind should be kindly, in our modern sense of the word as well; and thus the word has attained this meaning.'' --Trench.
\Kind"ly\, adv. 1. Naturally; fitly. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language --Addison. 2. In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige. Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love. --Rom. xii. 10.

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