kind

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adj

1. good, benevolent, benign, benignant, beneficent; mild, gentle, tender, Fr. gentil; compassionate, loving, Inf.Christian, humane, decent, noble, human; gracious, generous, charitable, bounteous, giving; lionhearted, big-hearted, altruistic, magnanimous, humanitarian, philanthropic; warmhearted, kindhearted, tender-hearted, soft-hearted; clement, lenient, temperate, merciful, pitying, placable, unhardened.

2. considerate, understanding, thoughtful; indulgent, forbearing, forbearant, patient, forgiving; helpful, obliging, accommodating; chivalrous, gallant, courteous; neighborly, friendly, nice, genial, hospitable, affable; kindly, cordial, amiable, amicable, good-natured, well-disposed; well-meant, well-meaning, well-intended, well-intentioned, well-affected; sympathetic, sympathizing, warm, affectionate, commiserating; tactful, diplomatic, delicate, mindful, heedful; motherly, fatherly, maternal, paternal, grandmotherly, grandfatherly; brotherly, fraternal, sisterly, cousinly, avuncular.

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n

1. class, category, genre, order; group, set, suit, variety; genus, species, phylum, subgenus, subspecies, strain, sept; race, breed, people, folk; clan, family, tribe, brood, ilk, kin, stock, stirps.

2. nature, aspect, character, temperament, disposition, temper, humor, habit; persuasion, bent, leaning, inclination, diathesis; lot, style, manner, cast, mold, stamp, brand, kidney; grain, make, mark, cue; color, stripe, streak, feather, vein; description, designation, number, Inf. the like or likes of.

3. type, sort, exemplar, representative, case; example, specimen, instance, sample.

4. in kind

in like manner, in the same way, in the same manner, similarly, correspondingly, likewise, like.

5. kind of

Informal. a little, a bit, to a degree, Inf. sort of, in a way, to some extent; somewhat, rather, pretty, fairly.