kind

1. Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature;
   Used especially of persons and their behavior (synset 301374976)
   "kind to sick patients"; "a kind master"; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"; "thanked her for her kind letter"
   also:

   • benign, benignant - pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
   • considerate - showing concern for the rights and feelings of others
   • good-natured - having an easygoing and cheerful disposition
   • soft - compassionate and kind; conciliatory
   • merciful - showing or giving mercy
   tells us about: kindness - the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic
   similar to:

   • benignant, gracious - characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects
   • benign - kindness of disposition or manner
   • benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic - showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
   • gentle - having or showing a kindly or tender nature
   • kind-hearted, kindhearted - having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition
2. Agreeable, conducive to comfort (synset 301245155)
   "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"; "the genial sunshine"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"
   similar to: hospitable - favorable to life and growth
   same as: genial
3. Tolerant and forgiving under provocation (synset 301044891)
   "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"
   similar to: forgiving - inclined or able to forgive and show mercy
   same as: tolerant

1. A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality (synset 105847533)
   "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
   is a type of: category - a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
   subtypes:

   • description - sort or variety
   • type - a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
   • antitype - an opposite or contrasting type
   • art form - (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)
   • style - a particular kind (as to appearance)
   • flavor, flavour - (physics) the six kinds of quarks
   • color, colour - (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
   • species - a specific kind of something
   • genus - a general kind of something
   • brand, make - a recognizable kind
   • genre - a kind of literary or artistic work
   • ilk, like - a kind of person
   • manner - a kind
   • model - a type of product
   • stripe - a kind or category
   • like, the like, the likes of - a similar kind
   same as: form, sort, variety

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