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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



... fingers dancing over the stenotype. He had been here a full year—but instead of becoming a familiar object, he had grown so gigantic that he filled her world. And it wasn't merely because he was young and beautiful. He was kind, too. ...
— The Lani People • J. F. Bone
... reply; and yet that and the strange laugh jarred upon his feelings. He was silent for some moments, and then said, with a kind of effort: ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... fellow. Do you hear, Kirylo? And any disguise you may think of, that too I could procure from a costumier, a Jew I know. Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly. Perhaps also a false beard or something of that kind may be needed. ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad
... it was. something like the rustle of Hilda Tregellis's satin train as she swept queenlike down the broad marble staircase of some great Elizabethan country palace. 'And dear Lady Hilda too,' he went on, musingly: 'dear, kind, sympathising Lady Hilda. Who on earth would ever have thought she had it in her to comfort that poor, weeping, sorrowing girl as I just now saw her doing? Dear Lady Hilda! Kind Lady Hilda! I have undervalued you ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... "What's that? Kind of her? Upon my word, if she doesn't come, it would be the last straw. When I go every Wednesday to be bored to death in her salon with a crowd of affected, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet


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