Kind

Adjective

 * 1) Affectionate, showing benevolence.
 * 2) Favorable.
 * 3) mild, gentle, forgiving
 * ''The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:affectionate

Derived terms

 * kindhearted
 * kindliness


 * kindly
 * kindness

Noun

 * 1) A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
 * What kind of a person are you?
 * This is a strange kind of tobacco.
 * 1) A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
 * The opening served as a kind of window.
 * 1) * 1884,, , Chapter VIII
 * I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.
 * 1)  One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
 * why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayne, for they dyd but their kynde [...].

Synonyms

 * genre
 * sort
 * type
 * derivative

(1) and/or (2)
 * generation
 * offspring
 * child
 * See also Thesaurus:class

Derived terms

 * in kind
 * kind of
 * kinda

Related terms

 * kindhood
 * kindred
 * kin, kinship

Noun

 * 1) Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in a barter.
 * to pay in kind
 * 1) Equivalent means used as response to an action.
 * I'll pay in kind for his insult.

Derived terms

 * in kind

Adjectives for Kind
refractory; voracious; abstracted; unexpected; corresponding; literal; positive; unworthy; fraternal; direst; various (pi); wondrous; honey-gathering; tingling; haphazard; curious; mortal; fascinating; heavier; weakest; baser; unlike; particular; noblest; sprightliest; restless; elaborate; expensive; barbarous; branching; peculiar; indifferent; unsatisfied; awful; lonesome; effectual; defensive; increasing; adventurous; equivocal.

Adverbs for Kind
usly; generously; hospitably; helpfully; unexpectedly; extremely; exceedingly; habitually; naturally; indulgently; gently; mistakenly; thoughtfully; lovingly; unaffectedly; effusively; officiously; sincerely; cordially; unspeakably; unusually; uncommonly; openly; apparently; noticeably; unselfishly; sympathetically; amiably; affably; unwontedly; considerately; humanely; complaisantly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
cynde:, cynd:

Etymology 2
From kine:, from kyn:, from  cyna:, when cattle were a means of exchange.

Compare capital: and chattel:, which also use “cow” to mean “property”.

Adjective

 * Arabic: حنون, ,
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: maco, maca
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 和藹, 和蔼, 善良
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: ,
 * Latvian: laipns, labs, mīļš
 * Lithuanian: malonus, mielas, meilus, geras
 * Luxembourgish: léif, frëndlech
 * Norwegian: snill, vennlig
 * Persian: مهربان
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: prijatan, ljubazan, dobrodušan
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: amable, bondadoso , bondadosa
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: caredig


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,


 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Serbian: dobrodušan


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Welsh:


 * : benigna, afabla

Noun

 * Arabic: نوع
 * Bengali: প্রকার, প্রজাতি
 * Cantonese:
 * Catalan: tipus, gènere, classe
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 类
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Estonian:, , tõug
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ჯიში, ტიპი, სახეობა
 * German:, Sorte
 * Hindi: तरह, प्रकार
 * Icelandic: gerð, tegund
 * Italian:, tipo
 * Japanese: 種類
 * Hindi: तरह, प्रकार
 * Icelandic: gerð, tegund
 * Italian:, tipo
 * Japanese: 種類


 * Javanese: macem
 * Korean: 종류
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: suga, šķirne, veids
 * Lithuanian: rūšis, veislė
 * Luxembourgish: Aart, Zort, Genre
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, , , raça,
 * Punjabi: ਵਰਗ, ਕਿਸਮ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: вид (vid), разновидность (raznovídnost') , сорт (sort) , род (rod)
 * Scottish Gaelic: gnè, seòrsa
 * Spanish:, tipo, forma, clase
 * Telugu: రకము, జాతి
 * Turkish: tür
 * Urdu: نوع
 * Vietnamese: loại
 * Turkish: tür
 * Urdu: نوع
 * Vietnamese: loại


 * Catalan: tipus
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,


 * Finnish: ,
 * Polish: ,


 * Finnish: eräänlainen + subst.
 * German:


 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:


 * : mena
 * : sorto
 * : प्रकार ना, दयालू वि
 * : प्रकार ना, दयाळू वि
 * : tipo, género , clase

Noun

 * Danish: naturalier
 * Dutch: natura


 * Finnish:
 * French: nature


 * Dutch: gelijke munt


 * Finnish: samalla mitalla

Anagrams

 * dink, DINK

Noun

 * 1) cheek

Etymology
From kinn:, from.

Noun

 * 1) child, kid, non-adult human
 * 2) descendant, still a minor or irrespective of age
 * ''In sommige patriarchale tradities blijven kinderen levenslang onvoorwaardelijk onderworpen aan het vaderlijk gezag, zoals aanvankelijk in het Oude Rome, in andere houdt een zoon op kind te zijn door zijn eigen gezin te stichten
 * ''In certain patriarchal traditions, children remain subject to unconditional paternal authority for life, as originally in Ancient Rome, in other ones a son ceases to be a child by founding his own family
 * 1)  product of influence, breeding etc.

Etymology
From kint:, from  kint:, from, from , substantivised form of , from. Cognate with Latin genitus:.

Derived terms

 * kinderlijk
 * kinds
 * kinderbescherming
 * kinderboek
 * kinderloos
 * kindermishandeling
 * kinderspel
 * kindertaal
 * kinderverhaal
 * kinderzorg
 * kindvriendelijk


 * kerstekind
 * kleinkind
 * koningskind
 * liefdeskind
 * mensenkind
 * pleegkind
 * schoolkind
 * stadskind
 * stiefkind
 * weeskind
 * wonderkind
 * zondagskind
 * zorgenkind

Synonyms

 * (descendant) afstammeling, telg

Noun

 * 1)  race, kind, kin
 * 2) a sheep (especially a ewe)
 * 3)  used as a term of disparagement for a girl (or woman)

Etymology
From kind:, from, cognate with Latin gens:. The sense of “sheep” is derived from the compound sauðkind:, literally “sheep-kind”.

Noun

 * 1)  cheek; a part of the face.

Etymology
From kinn:, from.