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5 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kind \Kind\ (k[imac]nd), adjective [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.
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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kind \Kind\, noun [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See {Kind}, adjective]
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. 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.
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; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kind \Kind\, verb (used with an object) [See {Kin}.] To beget. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
kind
adjective
1: 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}]
2: liberal; "kind words of praise"
3: conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet" [syn: {genial}]
4: expressing sympathy
5: characterized by mercy, and compassion; "compassionate toward disadvantaged people"; "kind to animals"; "a humane judge" [syn: {merciful}]
6: agreeable; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"
7: helpful to other people; "helping an old lady with her bundles was his kind deed for the day"
8: tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke" [syn: {tolerant}]
9: showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed thoughtful attention" [syn: {thoughtful}]
10: generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an openhearted gift to charity" [syn: {good-hearted}, {kindly}, {openhearted}]
noun: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" [syn: {sort}, {form}, {variety}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
230 Moby Thesaurus words for "kind": Christian, Christlike, Christly, 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, 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
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