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Kind   /kaɪnd/   Listen
Kind

noun
1.
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.  Synonyms: form, sort, variety.  "What kinds of desserts are there?"
adjective
(compar. kinder; superl. kindest)
1.
Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior.  "A kind master" , "Kind words showing understanding and sympathy" , "Thanked her for her kind letter"
2.
Agreeable, conducive to comfort.  Synonym: genial.  "The genial sunshine" , "Hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"
3.
Tolerant and forgiving under provocation.  Synonym: tolerant.



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"Kind" Quotes from Famous Books



... the men, had breakfasted. A species of sullen discontent pervaded the ship, and the recent kind feelings toward Raoul Yvard had nearly vanished in disappointment. Some began to grumble about the chances of the other ships falling in with the lugger, while others swore "that it mattered not who saw her; catch her none could, who had not an illicit understanding with the Father of ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... he was stubborn as a mule about trifles which did not in the least concern him, but as regarded the affairs of every-day life he was on the whole pleasant and easy-going, more especially when nothing occurred to put him out. When anything of the kind did occur, he could certainly assume the attitude of an ugly customer, and on such occasions the wound on his cheek put on a lurid hue which was not pleasant to contemplate. His ordinary discourse mainly dealt with the events of his everyday life. It was ...
— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent
... cousin visiting there, was taken, and two days later still, the three remaining well children were sent out one afternoon for a drive with Grandpa in the Dayton-wagon, an old-time version of the present-day station wagon. We thought it was kind of strange to go to drive in the rain, but it wasn't really raining hard, so we stopped where the Cathedral Close is now and picked bluets and violets. When we got home we were told we had a new little brother! Wildly excited, we rushed upstairs and assaulted ...
— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker
... friend Khiamull! It seems to me that a girl of the kind I've mentioned is by no means to ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... gross matter she abstracts their forms, And draws a kind of quintessence from things, Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge


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