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kind

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of kind

1 given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others

  • providing the grieving widow with a homemade meal was a kind deed
Synonyms of kind

attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful
Words Related to kind

brotherly, good, good-hearted, helpful, hospitable, kindhearted, kindly, neighborly, nice

caring, compassionate, sympathetic, tender

chivalrous, courteous, courtly, gallant, gracious, polite

diplomatic, tactful

deferential, dutiful, obliging, regardful, respectful

altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, benignant, humane, selfless, unselfish

charitable, generous, magnanimous
Near Antonyms of kind

inattentive, uncaring, unheeding

inhospitable, unkind, unkindly

ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, rude, uncivil, unmannerly

unhelpful

malevolent, malicious, mean, spiteful
Antonyms of kind

heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking

2 having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others

  • a kind person who regularly volunteers at the homeless shelter
Synonyms of kind

beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted
Words Related to kind

attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful

affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm

clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft

patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding

altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing

anticruelty, cruelty-free
Near Antonyms of kind

ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted

inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking

grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimental

hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent

antihumanitarian, uncharitable
Antonyms of kind

atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton

kind

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of kind

1 a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common

  • I like that kind of candy
Synonyms of kind

breed, class, description, feather, genre, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, order, sort, species, strain, stripe, type, variety
Words Related to kind

model

sample, specimen

bracket, bunch, category, division, family, grade, group, grouping, lot, persuasion, rank(s), set, suite

2 one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic

  • we looked at just about every kind of flooring before deciding which to use in the kitchen
Synonyms of kind

bracket, category, class, classification, division, family, genus, grade, group, league, order, rank(s), rubric, set, species, tier, type
Words Related to kind

description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort

branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety

breed, race

generation

heading, label, title

Synonym Discussion of kind

type, kind, sort, nature, description, character mean a number of individuals thought of as a group because of a common quality or qualities. type may suggest strong and clearly marked similarity throughout the items included so that each is typical of the group.
    • one of three basic body types
kind may suggest natural grouping.
    • a zoo seemingly having animals of every kind
sort often suggests some disparagement.
    • the sort of newspaper dealing in sensational stories
nature may imply inherent, essential resemblance rather than obvious or superficial likenesses.
    • two problems of a similar nature
description implies a group marked by agreement in all details belonging to a type as described or defined.
    • not all acts of that description are actually illegal
character implies a group marked by distinctive likenesses peculiar to the type.
    • research on the subject so far has been of an elementary character

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