Kind Definition

kīnd
kinder, kindest, kinds
adjective
kinder, kindest
Sympathetic, friendly, gentle, tenderhearted, generous, etc.
Webster's New World
Cordial.
Kind regards.
Webster's New World
Agreeable or beneficial.
A dry climate kind to asthmatics.
American Heritage
Loving; affectionate.
Webster's New World
Natural; native.
Webster's New World
noun
kinds
Origin.
Webster's New World
A group of individuals or instances sharing common traits; a category or sort.
Different kinds of furniture; a new kind of politics.
American Heritage
Nature.
Webster's New World
A doubtful or borderline member of a given category.
Fashioned a kind of shelter; a kind of bluish color.
American Heritage
Underlying character as a determinant of the class to which a thing belongs; nature or essence.
American Heritage
suffix
Used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively.
Wiktionary
idiom
all kinds of
  • Plenty of; ample:

    We have all kinds of time to finish the job.

American Heritage
in kind
  • With produce or commodities rather than with money:

    pay in kind.

  • In the same manner or with an equivalent:

    returned the slight in kind.

American Heritage
kind of
  • Rather; somewhat:

    I'm kind of hungry.

American Heritage
of a kind
  • Of the same kind; alike:

    My father and my uncle are two of a kind.

American Heritage
after one's (<i>or</i> its) kind
  • in agreement with one's (or its) nature
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Kind

Noun

Singular:
kind
Plural:
kinds

Adjective

Base Form:
kind
Comparative:
kinder
Superlative:
kindest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Kind

Origin of Kind

  • From Middle English -kinde, -kunde, -kuinde, alteration (due to the noun kind (“type, class”)) of Middle English -kin, -kun, -cun, from Old English -cynn (“of or belonging to a specified race or family”), from cynn (“family, race”), see kin. Most uses appear to have been formed by analogy with mankind.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Old English cynd (“generation, kind, nature, race”), ġecynd, from Proto-Germanic *kundiz, *gakundiz, related to *kunją. See also kin.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English kinde natural, kind from Old English gecynde natural genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English gecynd race, offspring, kind genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English cynde (“innate, natural, native”), ġecynde, from cynd.

    From Wiktionary

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