Definition of KIND

kind

Plural: kinds

Noun

  • A category or group of things or people sharing characteristics.
  • a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
    • "what kinds of desserts are there?"
  • A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
  • A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
  • One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
  • Family, lineage.
  • Manner.
  • Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
  • Equivalent means used as response to an action.
  • Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
  • The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
  • Food in a particular category.

Adjective

  • Having a gentle, friendly, and considerate nature.
  • 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"

Adjective Satellite

  • agreeable, conducive to comfort
    • "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"
    • "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"
  • tolerant and forgiving under provocation
    • "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"

Adj

  • Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
  • Affectionate.
  • Favorable.
  • Mild, gentle, forgiving
  • Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
  • Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

Examples

  • a horse kind in harness
  • a kind man; a kind heart
  • A KIND opponent will still crush you in Scrabble, but they’ll do it with a smile.
  • I'll pay in kind for his insult.
  • The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor.
  • The opening served as a kind of window.
  • The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
  • This is a strange kind of tobacco.
  • What kind of (a) person are you?
  • What KIND of word did you just play? I’ve never heard of it!

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English kynde, kunde, cunde, icunde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender, generation, race”), from Proto-West Germanic *kundi, from Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, related to Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, kin”) and Old English cennan (“to bear, give birth”).
Cognate with Old High German gikunt (“nature, kind”), Icelandic kind (“race, species, kind”). Doublet of gens, genesis, and jati. See also kin.

Antonyms

unkind

Scrabble Score: 9

kind: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
kind: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
kind: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

kind: valid Words With Friends Word