Kind

Definition: Kind

Kind

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Liberal; "kind words of praise".

3. Conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet".

4. Expressing sympathy.

5. Characterized by mercy, and compassion; "compassionate toward disadvantaged people"; "kind to animals"; "a humane judge".

6. Agreeable; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics".

7. Helpful to other people; "helping an old lady with her bundles was his kind deed for the day".

8. Tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke".

9. Showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed thoughtful attention".

10. : generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an openhearted gift to charity".

Noun

1. A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "kind" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Kind

Amusement

Pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full-house, four of a kind, royal flush; misere;

Benevolence

Phrase: " act a charity sometimes "; " a tender heart, a will inflexible "; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; " kind words are more than coronets "; quando amigo pide no hay manana; " the social smile, the sympathetic tear ".

Adjective: benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.

Acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment.

Class

Kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.

Courtesy

Compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases, ceremonial;salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil, greeting, recognition; welcome, abord, respects, devoir, regards, remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love, duty; empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.

Dissimilarity

Nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale "; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo.

Adjective: dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind; (class) unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented; original.

Mankind

Noun: man, mankind; human race, human species, human kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation.

Negation

Adverb: no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively.

Payment

Verb: pay, defray, make payment; paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready money, pay at sight, pay in advance; cash, honor a bill, acknowledge; redeem; pay in kind.

Pity

Phrase: one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco; " a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind " onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.

Request

Phrase: Dieu vous garde; dirigenos Domine; would you be so kind as to.

Crosswords: Kind

Afrikaan (bairn, child, infant, offspring, young), Albanian (lappet), Danish (cheek), Dutch (bairn, child, infant, offspring, young), German (baby, bairn, bambino, child, infant, kid, kiddy, offspring, sprog, sproglet, youngster), Swedish (cheek).

Nothing in it. The kind of a face I could fall into (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Do you know what kind of a bomb it was (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman.)

Certainties. It's the kind of memory that you take for granted (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

What kind of havoc shall the Carver Media Group create in the world today (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Tell me what kind of man would I be (What Kind of Man Would I be?; performing artist: Chicago)

You've been so kind and generous, I don't know how you keep on giving (Kind and Generous; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)

A simple kind of life, (Simple Kind of Life; performing artist: No Doubt)

Wouldn't you agree, baby you and me got a groovy kind of love (A Groovy Kind Of Love; performing artist: Phil Collins)

It's gotta be the right kind line (Speed Kills; performing artist: 10CC)

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. (references; author: Bob Hope)

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot. (references; author: unknown)

Never say anything unless it is kind, necessary, and true. (references; author: unknown)

When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell her so. (references; author: unknown)

Two of a Kind (1983)

All the Kind Strangers (1974)

Neugierig wie ein Kind (1974)

The Killing Kind (1973)

He's Not the Walking Kind (1972)

Another Kind of Love (performing artist: Hugh Cornwell)

SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL  (performing artist: Grand Funk )

There's A Kind of Hush (performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

The Right Kind Of Love (performing artist: Jeremy Jordan)

Some Kind Of Lover (performing artist: Jody Watley)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Amino-Alcohols, Their Ethers and Esters, and Salts Thereof, Excluding Esters with More Than One Kind of Oxygen-Function: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player Becoming The Kind Of Person Every Team Wants (reference)

• Abortus voor het kind (reference)

• What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States (reference)

• What Kind of a God Would Allow a Thing Like This to Happen?!! (reference)

• Ce-VI - Close Encounters of the Possession Kind: A Different Kind of Interference of Otherworldly Beings (reference)

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Periodicals

• Kind News - Jrs Ed (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Some Kind of Wonderful (reference)

• Two of a Kind (reference)

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Music

• Kind of Blue (reference)

• Two Of A Kind (1983 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Walk on Water Kind of Day (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• A New Kind of Science Explorer (reference)

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The last known person in the world to have smallpox of any kind. Variola minor in 23-year-old Ali Maow Maalin, Merka, Somalia. Credit: CDC.

Any kind of structure on the deep sea floor attracts local mobile species. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

ROUNDUP ...at the Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Station in southeastern Montana. At this station, one of the largest in the world of its kind, researchers help to ensure a plentiful supply of meat while protecting the rangeland environment. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..

Inside a sound room, or anechoic chamber, Everett Foreman (left) and Florida A&M University student Cornelius Dunmore insert an insect detection device into another kind of portable, sound-insulated enclosure. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Either odd rock formations or some kind of ruins in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. Credit: Unknown.

Cast iron column; column capital. Measured drawing delineated by U. J. Theriot and A. Boyd Cruise, April 1940. (Reproduction Number: HABS LA-53, sheet 21 of 26; negative number LC-USZA3-5) The cast-iron column and capital shown here in this HABS measured drawing are distinguishing features of the Le Pretre Mansion in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans. Built around 1836, the mansion is named after its second owner, Jean Baptiste Le Pretre, a local merchant who added the second- and third-story cast-iron balconies to the exterior after 1850. The mansion is also known for its high basement, the first of its kind to be built in the French Quarter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Taigichuan (Tai Chi), a kind of slow-motion martial art, is regarded as a healthy exercise ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..

U. S. Army Camp Hospital No. 43, Gievre, France. : Lister water, the kind used throughout camp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"Marine Corps Leathernecks with the 1st Marine Division in Korea are subject to outdoor advertising of a not particularly persuasive type these days. As enemy positions are overrun, signs such as the ones in this photograph, taken by Marine Corps Combat photographers, are found. It's a new kind of recruiting for the Communist Peoples Volunteer Force -- but Communist recruiting officers reports are strangely silent as to the success of the current campaign." Quoted from the original caption released with this p. Credit: NAVY; photo by Commander, Naval Forces Far East under date of 11 May 1951. Note the Marine's goggles and M-1 carbine..

In port, circa 1917, possibly after being taken over by the Navy. Note the interesting pattern of her paintwork, perhaps some kind of camouflage. The ferry Castleton is in the background. This "Mehanden Fisherman" was commissioned as USS Amagansett (SP-693) on 17 May 1917, for World War I service, and returned to her owner on 12 March 1919. Credit: NAVY.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Laws therefore human, of what kind so ever, are available by consent. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. (reference)

The undeveloped state of the class struggle, as well as their own surroundings, causes Socialists of this kind to consider themselves far superior to all class antagonisms. (reference)

Dirigible sheds and shelters of every kind for aircraft. (reference)

Let me, however, make it clear that I have no official mission or status of any kind, and that I speak only for myself. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. (reference)

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He was looked on as sufficiently belonging to the place to make his merits and prospects a kind of common concern

He looked at the Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice

The kind hand trembled

But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn

He was a wretch, a kind of mendicant musician, a lazy ragamuffin, who beat her, and who left her, as she had taken him, with disgust

I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away

He wanted to sin with another of his kind, to force another being to sin with him and to exult with her in sin.

The urging of that word judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

But folks are kind of scared to stop at night

The Governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual

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Health

Another kind of surgery removes the adenoids. (references)

However, a yeast infection is only one kind of vaginal infection. (references)

And rest does not always relieve it. Not everyone feels the same kind of fatigue. (references)

Business

For all kind of compressors (8414) the duties are 5 percent. (references)

End-users of this kind of machinery are large private companies. (references)

Another advantage is this kind of transport is environmentally friendly. (references)

Children

Cameroon

There are few facilities for persons with disabilities and little public assistance of any kind. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

During most of the year, publishing and distribution of literature of any kind, including religious material, was rare. (references)

China

Despite official regulations encouraging officials to be atheists, in some localities as many as 20 to 25 percent of Communist Party officials engage in some kind of religious activity. (references)

Discrimination

Hong Kong

The Bill of Rights Ordinance, which provides for the incorporation into law of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as applied to Hong Kong, entitles residents to the civil and political rights recognized therein "without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." However, the ordinance binds only the Government, public authorities and persons acting on their behalf; that is, not private persons or entities. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

The MEM can request the royalty in cash or in kind. (references)

Argentina

If supplied in kind, the corporation can be established within approximately two months. (references)

Human Rights

Tunisia

In the first case of its kind, Mansouri filed criminal charges against the prison guards. (references)

Guatemala

In 68 percent of the forced disappearances, boys and girls were taken directly to a military post of one kind or another. (references)

China

However, while some plaintiffs successfully have filed suit against the Government, decisions of any kind in favor of dissidents remain rare. (references)

Minorities

Macedonia

Some parents have hired teachers of their own, although this kind of private education is not authorized legally. (references)

Political Economy

Brunei

In practice citizens do not have the right to change their government, and they generally avoid political activity of any kind. (references)

AUSTRIA

U.S. investors are entitled to the same kind of protection under Austrian patent and copyright legislation as are Austrian nationals. (references)

Trade

Laos

PRE-SHIPMENT INSPECTION IS REQUIRED FOR EXPORTED GOODS OF ANY KIND. (references)

Uae

All kind of illicit drugs (Hashish, Cocaine, Heroin, etc.) are prohibited in the UAE. (references)

Argentina

No packing list is necessary for goods imported in bulk, such as coal, petroleum, sand, etc., or for articles identical in kind, characteristics, composition, weight, etc. (references)

Travel

Honduras

Generally the consummation of a business deal is closely related to some kind of social activity. (references)

Qatar

A 300-bed Maternity Hospital, the only one of its kind in this country, operates under Hamad General Hospital. (references)

Women

Czech Republic

Crisis centers that help rape victims include White Circle of Safety, an association for crime victims that provides free psychiatric and legal help, and Riaps, a help line that counsels persons who experience any kind of trauma. (references)

Worker Rights

Central African Republic

The minimum wage varies by sector and by kind of work. (references)

Japan

The Constitution provides that no person shall be held in bondage of any kind. (references)

China

Government officials denied that there were any arrests or that the Karmapa's parents have faced restrictions of any kind. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Of the male kind

Expressions using "kind": A kind of ♦ allowance in kind ♦ an odd kind of man ♦ be kind to one another ♦ Communion in one kind ♦ consultatiebureau voor moeder en kind ♦ contribution in kind ♦ empty cachet of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use ♦ error of first kind ♦ error of the first kind ♦ error of the second kind ♦ error of the third kind ♦ four of a kind ♦ give my kind remembrances to him! ♦ human kind ♦ in kind ♦ it is very kind of you! ♦ kind act ♦ kind deed ♦ kind hearted ♦ kind of ♦ kind of drive ♦ kind of film ♦ kind of sport ♦ kind of wine ♦ kind offices good treatment ♦ kind regards! ♦ kind to a rare degree ♦ kind treatment ♦ kind words ♦ man kind ♦ model of first kind ♦ nothing of the kind ♦ of a kind ♦ of its kind ♦ of that kind ♦ of the same kind ♦ Pareto distribution of the second kind ♦ pay in kind ♦ payment in kind ♦ remuneration in kind ♦ rent in kind ♦ same kind ♦ same kind of ♦ something of the kind ♦ that is very kind of you ♦ that kind ♦ the same kind ♦ this kind of ♦ three of a kind ♦ to pay in kind ♦ unique in its kind ♦ very kind of you ♦ wages in kind ♦ what kind of ♦ what kind of man is he? ♦ what kind of? ♦ with your kind permission ♦ would you be so kind as to ♦ you are very kind. Additional references.

Beginning with "kind": kind-eyed, kind-faced, Kind-hearted, kind-heartedly, Kind-heartedness, kind-looking, kind-natured, kind-of, kind-of-casual-but-vamp, kind-of-coat, kind-on-the-pocket, kind-uncled, kind-voiced.

Ending with "kind": benefit-in-kind, in-kind.

Containing "kind": be-kind-to-shelley, god-please-be-kind-and-let-it-be-so, over-kind-hearted, wrong-kind-of-snow.

Afrikaans

vriendelik (affable, friendly, good-natured), soort (sort), bereidwillig (obliging), bereidvaardig (obliging, ready, willing). (various references)

Albanian

lloj (assortment, brand, brood, cast, class, description, form, genre, kidney, nature, persuasion, race, rate, shape, sort, species, stamp, stock, style, type, variety). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, neighbor, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sexy, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), ‏شفوق (compassionate, kind hearted, pitying, soft-hearted, sympathetic, tender-hearted), ‏اللطيف (dove, nice), ‏الكريم (generous), ‏صنف (article, assort, brand, categorize, category, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type), ‏صفة أساسية, ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏طبيعة (complexion, ease, nature, quality), ‏باب (affair, chapter, door, entry, field, gate, hatch, issue, matter, port, rubric, section, sort, source, subject), ‏حنون (affectionate, compassionate, feeling, fond, merciful, motherly, pitying, soft-hearted, soulful, tender, tender-hearted, whole-hearted), فَنّ (art), ‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), ‏نوع (brood, change, class, description, form, gender, genus, grain, kidney, manner, order, quality, ripeness, run, sex, sort, species, stripe, style, type, variegate, variety, vary), ‏مؤدب (educated, gallant, gentleman, kindly, mannerly, polite, preceptor, urbane), ‏كريم (benign, big hearted, cream, custard, decent, generous, gentle, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, high minded, honorable, honourable, kindly, lavish, liberal, noble, noble-minded, obliging, open handed, precious, respectable, valuable, warm-hearted), جنس (species), صنف (compose, sort, specimen, to categorize), نوع (species), ‏طيبة. (various references)

Basque

atsegin. (various references)

Bulgarian 

качество (brand, capacity, class, degree, fabric, grade, merit, point, quality, rate, stamp, tap), добър (benign, fair, good, good natured, kindly, lucky, nice, plummy, pretty, round, savoury, sound, tenderhearted, useful, warmhearted, well), порода (breed, race, species, stock), природа (composition, country, fiber, fibre, grain, make up, nature, scenery, temper), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, mellow, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), естество (character, nature), мил (agreeable, amiable, benign, comfortable, cute, darling, dear, engaging, genial, good, likable, likeable, lovable, mil, nice, sweet), добродушен (avuncular, easygoing, good hearted, good humoured, good natured, good tempered, good-humored, jovial, mellow, pickwickian, placable), вино с просфора, сърдечен (cardiac, cheery, cordial, expansive, genial, hearty, lusty, mellow, openhearted, pressing, warm), разновидност (diversity, multiformity, multiplicity, species, variation, variety), раса (race, stock), род (breed, clan, family, gender, genus, house, kin, kindred, line, manner, name, order, origin, parentage, race, rod, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, tribe), семейство (family, home, house, household, kin, parentage, people, stock), сорт (breed, class, degree, description, genus, grade, nature, order, persuasion, rate, sort, species, strain, style, tap, variety), стока (commodity, freightage, goods, merchandise, stock), вид (air, appearance, aspect, blush, breed, cast, clan, class, complexion, demeanor, demeanour, description, form, genre, genus, grade, guise, kidney, likeness, look, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, sort, species, strain, stripe, style, taxon, type, variety, view). (various references)

Catalan

sort (sort), amable (affable, friendly, good-natured). (various references)

Chinese 

親切 (amiable, close and dear, cordial, familiar, friendliness, gracious, hospitality, intimate), 類 (category, class, jaw, like, palate, similar, to resemble, type), 般 (class, manner, sort, way), 種類 (class, sort, species), 種 (race, seed, to grow, to plant, type), 亲切 (graciousness, homely), 慈 (compassionate, gentle, humane, merciful), 愷 (joyful), 德 (character, ethics, favor, Germany, goodness, kindness, morality, virtue), 仁慈 (benevolent, charitable, kindly, kindness, merciful). (various references)

Czech

druh (companion, Comrade, description, fellow, genus, mate, nature, peer, race, species, strain, style, type, variety, yokefellow, yokemate). (various references)

Danish

venlig (affable, friendly, good-natured), godhjertet (good-hearted), art (sort). (various references)

Dutch

voorkomend (affable, friendly, good-natured, obliging), aardig (affable, amusing, dainty, entertaining, fair, fairly, friendly, funny, good-natured, nice, pretty, rather, relatively, tidy). (various references)

Esperanto

komplezema (obliging), kompleza (obliging), speco (sort), bonkora (good-hearted), amabla (dainty, nice, pretty), afabla (affable, friendly, good-natured). (various references)

Faeroese

slag (blow, breed, race, sort, type), fryntligur (affable, friendly, good-natured, obliging), blíður (affable, friendly, gentle, good-natured, mild, obliging). (various references)

Farsi 

مهربانی شفقت امیز, مهربان (Affable, Amiable, Benign, Blithe, Charitable, Clement, Comkpliant, Gentle, Good, Gracious, Humane, Kindly, Meek, Mellow, Merciful, Mild, Open, Soft, Tenderminded), ماشین چین دهنده (Kilter), نوع (Brand, Breed, Class, Gender, Genus, Ilk, Issue, Kidney, Manner, Nature, Navigate, Order, Persuasion, Quality, Sort, Species, Speckle, Stamp, Suit, Type, Variety), کیفیت (How, Quality, State), قسم (Gender, Genus, Manner, Persuasion, Sort, Species, Speckle, Type), گونه (Breed, Cheek, Ilk, Jowl, Nature, Navigate, Sort, Species, Type), گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), غیرنقدی , جنسی (Generic, Sex, Sexual), جنس (Brand, Breed, Commodity, Gender, Genus, Mettle, Stamp, Stuff, Substance), جور (Brand, Class, Compatible, Genus, Ilk, Oppression, Sort), بامحبت . (various references)

Finnish

ystävällinen (affable, amicable, friendly, good-natured, kindly), laji (brand, event, make, sort, species, sport). (various references)

French

gentil (kindly), aimable, sorte, genre (kidney), espèce, complaisant, affable. (various references)

Frisian

freonlik (affable, friendly, good-natured), attint (attentive, obliging), aardig (affable, considerable, friendly, good-natured, sizable). (various references)

Galician

especie. (various references)

German

Art (behavior, behaviour, breed, category, description, fashion, fits, form, grade, ilk, manner, mode, nature, niceness, order, property, quality, sort, species, strain, style, type, variety, way), Sorte (brand, breed, description, grade, ilk, sort, species, strain, type, variety), Gattung (breed, genre, genus, sort, species, tribe, type), freundlich (affable, amicable, befriending, benign, benignant, benignly, boonly, bright, charitably, cheerful, companionable, companionably, congenial, cordial, cordially, favorable, favourable, friendly, genial, genially, gentle, good-natured, jovial, kindly, Matey, pleasant, pleasantly, sociable, suave, suavely, sympathetic). (various references)

Greek 

καλόσ (fair, good, hanky, nice, well off), καλός (good), κατηγορία (accusation, allegation, category, charge, class, complaint, league, rap), γένοσ (breed, brood, gender, gene, genus, ilk, issue, kin, race, sex, species, stock, strain), περιποιητικόσ (obliging), ποικιλία (choice, diversity, miscellaneousness, miscellany, potpourri, sundries, variety, variety of, variousness), φιλόφρων (amiable, kindly), ευγενικόσ (amiable, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, genteel, gracious, mannerly, polite, urbane), ευγενικός (considerate about, genteel, gentle, polite), ευνοϊκόσ (benign, favorable, favourable, propitious), είδοσ (article, brand, character, commodity, genre, item, line, sort, species, specimen, variety, ware), είδος (genre, sort, species, strain, type), αγαθόσ (benign, good, kindly). (various references)

Guarani

sopa, paraguái, mba'éichaguápa (what kind of), chipa. (various references)

Hawaiian

lloj (sort). (various references)

Hebrew 

מין (class, genus, sex, sort, type), מחלקה (class, department, division, grade), זן (species, strain, variety), אדיב (affable, civil, courteous, gallant, genial, gracious, kindly, mannerly, obliging, polite, suave, well mannered), טוב לב (affable, benign, generous, good hearted, goodness, kindhearted, kindness), טוב (fair, good, goodness, property, wealth, well), סוג (brand, category, class, denomination, fenced, genus, quality, sort, species, strain, turning aside, type). (various references)

Hungarian

válfaj (variety), szíves (benevolent, engaging, neighborly, neighbourly, willing), kedves (affable, amiable, beloved, bland, comely, darling, dear, ducky, expensive, friendly, gentle, good-natured, lady love, likable, lovable, loveable, lovely, lover, loving, marrow, mild, nice, paramour, suave, sweet, Valentine, valuable). (various references)

Icelandic

vingjarnlegur (affable, friendly, good-natured), vænn (affable, friendly, good-natured). (various references)

Indonesian

sayang (babe, baby, darling, dear, sweetie), ramah (debonair, genial, gentle, neighborly), manis (adorable, cute, dulcet, engageing, sweet), jenis (brand, genus, type), baik hati, bagai (as if, type). (various references)

Irish

saghas (kind; size, sort). (various references)

Italian

gentile (affable, bland, charming, civil, courteous, decent, fair, genteel, gentile, gentle, gracious, kindly, likable, mild, nice, obliging, polite, tender, thoughtful), cortese (accommodating, affable, bland, complaisant, courteous, friendly, good-natured, gracious, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, polite, respectful, urbane, well-mannered), tipo (bloke, chap, codger, customer, fellow, guy, Jack, manner, model, pattern, sort, specimen, strain, type), specie (manner, sort, species, type, variety), sorta (description, grade, manner, nature, sort, species, type), genere (article, cast, class, description, family, famine, gender, genre, genus, goods, ilk, product, sort, species, stem, type). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

種 (cause, copy, inside story, material, matter, pip, quality, secret, seed, source, species, subject, theme, tone, trick, variety), 厚い (cordial, deep, thick, warm), 懇ろ (courteous, hospitable), 様 (appearance, in order to, like, manner, Mr or Mrs, so as to, so that, sort, such as, way, yang), 丁寧 (care, careful, close, conscientious, courteous, polite, thorough). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶん (branch, degree, detached, dividing, duty, lot, one's lot, one's status, part, rate, ration, relation, segment, sentence, share), よう (appearance, business, calamity, early death, employ, hire, in order to, like, manner, so as to, so that, sort, such as, task, to become intoxicated, to get drunk, use, way, yang), やさしげ (gentle, sweet-looking), やさしい (affectionate, amiable, easy, gentle, graceful, plain, simple, suave, tender), るい (base, class, evil influence, family, genus, implication, involvement, sort, thin, trouble, weak), あつい (cordial, deep, faithful, hot, serious, thick, warm), ていねい (care, careful, close, conscientious, courteous, polite, thorough), せつ (acute, ardent, eager, earnest, filthy, keen, node, occasion, section, temple, theory, time), たね (cause, copy, inside story, issue, material, matter, offspring, paternal blood, pip, quality, secret, seed, source, subject, theme, tone, trick, variety), さま (appearance, manner, Mr or Mrs), ひんしゅ (brand, description), しんみ (cordial, novelty, relative, true meaning), ねんごろ (courteous, hospitable), しゅ (actor, lord, master, species, supporting post, tumor, variety), しゅるい (alcoholic drinks, category, counter for different sorts of things, type, variety), こんとく (cordial). (various references)

Korean 

친절한 (Warm-hearted). (various references)

Malay

macam (sort), jenis (sort), baik-haiti (affable, friendly, good-natured), baik (affable, friendly, good-natured, pretty). (various references)

Manx

sorch (classification, sort, species, type, variety), kynney (breed, connection, family, folk, genus, kin, kindred, lineage, people, race, species, stock), keint (class, ilk, make, marque), dooie (complement, endemic, full-blooded, good-natured, inborn, inherent, natural, patriotic, species, true-born, vernacular). (various references)

Norwegian

vennlig (affable, friendly, genial, good-natured), snill (charming, good, lovely). (various references)

Occitan

amable. (various references)

Papiamen

sorto (sort), amabel (dainty, nice, pretty), afabel (affable, friendly, good-natured). (various references)

Pig Latin

indkay.(various references)

Polish

usłużny (obliging), uprzejmy (affable, friendly, good-natured), uczynny (obliging). (various references)

Portuguese

amável (accommodating, affable, amiable, attentive, complaisant, complimentary, courteous, fond, friendly, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-humoured, good-natured, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, nice, obsequious, pleasing, sociable, sporty, sweet, well-natured), espécie (breed, description, feather, genus, manner, race, sort, specie, species, stripe), gentil (affable, bonny, canny, dapper, delicate, dinky, elegant, friendly, nice, pleasing, polite), género (sort), bondoso (affable, benevolent, big heart, charitable, friendly, generous, gentle, good, kind-hearted, large-hearted, warm-hearted), afável (affable, benign, debonair, friendly, soft, tractable). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

tipo (type), amável, amáveis. (various references)

Romanian

fel (character, class, course, custom, description, feather, kidney, manner, mode, nature, order, race, sort, species, stem, style, tap, tradition, tribe, way). (various references)

Russian 

сорт (grade, make, manner, persuasion, quality, race, sort, strain, style, tap, variety), сердечный (cardiac, cordial, genial, heartfelt, hearty, home-felt, warm, warmhearted, warm-hearted), семейство (family), род (clan, class, description, gender, genus, ilk, kin, order, origin, race, rod, series, species, stem, stock, strain), разряд (category, class, digit, discharge, rate, rating), разновидность (species, variety), хороший (bona, desirable, good, good contriver, good liver, neat, nice, okay, plummy, pretty great, pretty neat), тип любезный, качество (capacity, character, degree, grade, qty, quality, sort), класс (category, class, classroom, form, genus, grade, rating, school, schoolroom, species), вид (air, appearance, aspect, complexion, description, figuration, form, genue, genus, guise, hang, look, look out, make, mien, mode, outlook, prospect, shape, show, sight, sort, species, spp., variety, view, visage, vision, vista), природа чего-л., добрый (beneficent, big-hearted, genial, gentle, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, kindhearted, kind-hearted, kindly, open-hearted, tenderhearted, tender-hearted, warm-hearted). (various references)

Scottish

seòrsa (a sort, genus, sort, species, type). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrsta (brand, category, class, gamboge, genus, labrador tea, manner, quality, rank, run, sort, species, stripe, type), tip (make, mold, mould, type), srdačan (cordial, friendly, genial, hearty, open armed, outgiving, true-hearted, warm, warmhearted, warm-hearted), soj (breed, cast, lineage, race, stock, type), rod (crop, gender, genus, harvest, kindred, lineage, sex, yield), rasa (race), plemenit (aristocratic, gentle, high minded, nobby, noble), osećajan (compassionate, sentimental), nežan (affectionate, dainty, delicate, endearing, fond, frail, gentle, loving, melting, tender), ljudski (decent, human, humanly, man: to a man), ljubazan (affable, amiable, amicable, benignant, complaisant, debonair, kind hearted, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, nice, obliging, suave), fela, dobar (benign, fine, good, regular, wholesome). (various references)

Spanish

clase (breeding, class, denomination, description, form, grade, lecture, lesson, manner, nature, order, period, quality, school, schoolroom, set, sort, tone), amable (affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, charming, comradely, dainty, darling, decent, friendly, gentile, gentle, good, good-natured, helpful, levely, likeable, lovable, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, pleasant, pretty, sympathetic, thankful), suerte (chance, destination, destiny, die, factories, fatalism, fate, fortune, happiness, luck, luckiness, piece of luck, sort, try), especie (description, idea, kidney, matter, notion, remark, sort, species), tipo (blighter, build, character, disposition, especial, fellow, figure, genre, genus, guy, make, print, proposition, rate, shape, sort, type), gracioso (affable, amusing, catching, droll, facetious, friendly, funny, good-natured, graceful, gracious, joker), bonito (affable, beauteous, beautiful, charming, delightful, fair, fine, friendly, good-natured, handsome, lovely, lustrous, nice, pretty), bondadoso (benignant, kind hearted, kind-hearted, kindly, soft-hearted, warmhearted). (various references)

Swahili

gani (what a, what kind, what kind of, what sort of). (various references)

Swedish

vänlig (affable, amiable, amicable, approachable, benignant, favorable, favourable, folksy, friendly, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, kindly, pally, smooth), sort (assortment, description, dye, fashion, grade, kidney, manner, order, run, sort, strain, stripe, type, variety), snäll (affable, decent, friendly, good, good-natured, kind hearted), god (bonny, excellent, first rate, good, merry, nice, okay, satisfactory), art (character, nature, personality, species, type, variety). (various references)

Tagalog

uri (property, quality, sort), urì (property, quality, sort), mabaít (affable, friendly, good-natured), maawaín (affable, friendly, good-natured). (various references)

Thai

ใจดี (largehearted, large-hearted, sweet), ชนิด (sort), อ่อนโยน (kindly, mild, soft, suave, svelte, tender). (various references)

Turkish

yumuşak başlı (amenable, blancmange, compliant, docile, dovelike, flexible, flexile, good tempered, meek, obedient, pliable, pliant, soft, toward), yardımsever (benevolent, caring, charitable, friendly, gracious, helpful, humanist, humanitarian, kindly, obliging, public-spirited, well disposed), tür (breed, class, genre, genus, ilk, persuasion, race, sort, sort of, species, strain, stripe, type, variety), nitelik (attribute, attribution, character, characteristic, composition, eligibility, essence, hallmark, plate-mark, property, qualification, qualitative, quality, stamp), nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed), müşfik (affectionate, benevolent, charitable, soft, tender), iyiliksever (benefactor, beneficent, benevolent, bighearted, humane, humanitarian, philanthropic, philanthropical), iyi kâlpli (benign, benignant, bighearted, decent, good hearted, grandfatherly, great-hearted, kind hearted, kindhearted, kindly, large-hearted, warmhearted, warm-hearted), iyi (agreeable, all right, alright, b, comfortable, decent, decently, fair, fine, good, gratifying, great, happy, just, o.k., ok, okay, sound, well, well enough), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winning, winsome), cins (blooded, breed, cast, class, diversity, gender, genus, pedigree, pedigreed, persuasion, pure blooded, pureblooded, purebred, quality, race, sex, species, stripe, type, variety, well bred), aynı şekil, aşai rabbani ayinindeki ekmek veya su, çeşit (assortment, cast, class, denomination, description, genre, ilk, item, range, sample, sort, species, stripe, style, variety). (various references)

Turkmen 

sort (r) (sort, variety), patyюa. (various references)

Ukrainian

сорт (breed, chop, class, gender, genus, nature, order, quality, sort, tap), сердечний (hearty, warm, warm-hearted), слухняний (amenable, biddable, conformable, docile, dutiful, governable, mild, obedient, obediential, obeisant, obsequious, passive, toward, tractable), рід (ancestry, breed, brood, clan, gender, genus, kindred, lineage, name, nature, order, specie, species, stem, stock, type), хорошого сорту, характер (blood, character, disposition, ethos, habit, make up, mettle, nature, stripe, temperament, tone), вид (aspect, complexion, description, genus, outlook, perspective, prospect, sight, sort, species, view), люб'язний (accommodating, affable, amiable, attentive, complaisant, courteous, dear, good, nice, obliging, polite), племя, добрий (auspicious, good, good natured, nice, open-hearted, well). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thứ cái cùng loại, tử tế (amiable, clever, kindly, nice), loài giống loại, hạng (calibre, category, denomination, grade, run, species, standard), chừng mực nào, có lòng tốt xử lý, cái gần giống, cái đúng như vậy cái đại khái giống như, ân cần (affable, considerate). (various references)

Welsh

math (sort, type), caredig (affable, friendly). (various references)

Wolof

fonde (a kind of porridge). (various references)

Zulu

umhlobo (nationality, sort). (various references)

genos. (various references)

comis. (various references)

saredha. (various references)

cynn, gecynd, gecynde. (various references)

sorte. (various references)

genre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "kind": kinder, kindergarten, kindergartener, kindergarteners, kindergartens, kindergartner, kindergartners, kindest, kindhearted, kindheartedly, kindheartedness, kindheartednesses, kindle, kindled, kindler, kindlers, kindles, kindless, kindlessly, kindlier, kindliest, kindliness, kindlinesses, kindling, kindlings, kindly, kindness, kindnesses, kindred, kindreds, kinds. (additional references)

Words ending with "kind": gavelkind, humankind, mankind, overkind, unkind, womankind, womenkind, wunderkind. (additional references)

Words containing "kind": enkindle, enkindled, enkindles, enkindling, gavelkinds, prekindergarten, prekindergartens, rekindle, rekindled, rekindles, rekindling, unkinder, unkindest, unkindlier, unkindliest, unkindliness, unkindlinesses, unkindly, unkindness, unkindnesses, wunderkinder, wunderkinds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Kind" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aind, akind, cind, Cinda, Cnid, eind, ekind, iiand, jind, kando, kbn, keend, kend, kendu, kidd, kido, kidr, kidt, kied, kild, kim, kimn, kindy, Kinh, kini, kinl, Kinm, kinn, kinq, kins, kint, kinu, kinx, kiny, Kinz, kion, Kioni, kiud, kn, kndo, knid, kniv, knix, kniz, knod, knud, koin, koind, kuanda, Kufncd, Kuini, Kundy, Kunt, kyn, yind, zind. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dink.

-1 letter: din, ink, kid, kin.

-2 letters: id, in.

+1 letter: dinks, dinky, drink, inked, kinds.

+2 letters: bodkin, daikon, deking, diking, dinked, dinkey, dinkly, dinkum, drinks, duking, dyking, finked, jinked, kidnap, kidney, kilned, kinder, kindle, kindly, kinged, kinked, kirned, knifed, linked, nicked, nudnik, oinked, pinked, unkind, winked.

+3 letters: blinked, bodkins, chinked, clinked, daikons, darking, decking, dickens, dinkeys, dinkier, dinkies, dinking, dinkums, dirking, disking, docking, doeskin, dornick, drinker, ducking, duckpin, dunking, dusking, enskied, inkwood, invoked, kedging, kidding, kidnaps, kidneys, kidskin, kindest, kindled, kindler, kindles, kindred, kingdom, knitted, ladykin, likened, mankind, nickled, nonskid, nudnick, nudniks, plinked, prinked, redskin, reinked, skeined, skinked, skinned, slinked, snicked, swinked, tinkled, winkled, zincked.