kindly

Adjective Satellite

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
  • "kindly criticism"
  • "a kindly act"
• pleasant and agreeable
  • "a kindly climate"
  • "kindly breeze"

Adverb

• in a kind manner or out of kindness
  • "He spoke kindly to the boy"
  • "she kindly overlooked the mistake"

Adj

• Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
• Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
• Lawful.
• Natural; inherent to the kind or race.

Adv

• In a kind manner, out of kindness.
• In a favourable way.
• Used to make a polite request: please.
• With kind acceptance; used with take.
• Kind of, somewhat.
• Readily.
• Naturally.

Adjective

• Having or showing a kind and gentle nature.

Examples

• A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.
• Aunt Daisy didn't take it kindly when we forgot her anniversary.
• He kindly offered to take us to the station in his car.
• I don't take kindly to threats.
• Kindly refrain from walking on the grass.
• May we request that patrons kindly take their seats.
• She offered a KINDLY nod, even as she played a word that blocked his best move.

Synonyms

benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic, affable, altruistic, attentive, be so kind as to, benign, benignant, brotherly, clement, compassionate, considerate, cordial, forbearing, forgiving, friendly, generous, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, greathearted, humane, humanitarian, kind, kindhearted, lenient, magnanimous, merciful, mild, nice, noble, patient, philanthropic, pitying, pleasant, please, soft, softhearted, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, thoughtfully, tolerant, understanding, unselfish, unsparing, warmhearted

Antonyms

unkindly, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, cold-blooded, cruel, hardhearted, hateful, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, malevolent, malicious, mean, savage, spiteful, stern, thick-skinned, virulent

Anagrams of kindly