kindadjective
uk/kaɪnd/us/kaɪnd/A2 generous, helpful, and thinking about other people's feelings:
She's a very kind and thoughtful person.
It's very kind of you to help us.
Please be kind to your sister!
formal Would you be kind enough to/so kind as to close the door? (= please would you do this)
not causing harm or damage:
kind to the environment
This soap is kinder to the skin.
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- It's very kind of you to come all the way to meet me.
- I gave her some extra money - I know I didn't need to but I thought it would be kind.
- "If you like I can do some shopping for you." "That's a very kind offer."
- He showed me round the town, which was very kind of him.
- You sent her a card? That was a kind thought.
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Kind & thoughtful
- accommodating
- attentive
- avuncular
- be all heart idiom
- be big of sb idiom
- benign
- consideration
- diplomatic
- fatherly
- good-hearted
- good-natured
- goodwill
- gracious
- neighbourly
- nice
- nicely
- obliging
- open-hearted
- supportive
- well meant
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kindnoun [ C ]
uk/kaɪnd/us/kaɪnd/A1 a group with similar characteristics, or a particular type:
Today's vehicles use two kinds of fuel - petrol and diesel.
What kind of (a) job are you looking for?
I just don't have that kind of money (= I don't have so much money).
The cupboard contained all kinds of strange things.
Her travel company was the first of its kind (= of others that are similar).
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- Racism of any kind is abhorrent to me.
- I detest any kind of cruelty.
- She's got some kind of job in radio.
- "I will not allow that kind of behaviour in my class, " the teacher said severely.
- Wood, coal, oil, petrol, and gas are all different kinds of fuel.
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Categories and varieties
- animal
- brand
- breed
- category
- classification
- food group
- form
- hue
- ilk
- incarnation
- manner
- matter
- mould
- order
- run
- style
- take
- type
- variety
- version
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Idiom(s)
in kind
kind of
of a kind
of the kind