English > kind: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior / behavior. |
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| Examples | - "kind to sick patients"
- "a kind master"
- "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"
- "thanked her for her kind letter"
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| Attribute of | kindness | The quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic |
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| Narrower | benign | kindness / kindness of disposition or manner |
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| benignant, gracious | Characterized by kindness / kindness and warm / warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects |
| charitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted, openhearted, large-hearted | showing or motivated by sympathy / sympathy and understanding and generosity / generosity |
| gentle | Having or showing a kindly or tender nature |
| kindhearted, kind-hearted | Having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition |
| See also | accommodating, accommodative | helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation |
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| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| 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 |
| merciful | showing or giving mercy |
| soft | Compassionate and kind |
| sympathetic | Expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy / sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings |
| Opposite | unkind | lacking kindness |
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| Spanish | afectuoso, amable, bondadoso, simpático |
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| Nouns | kindness | a kind act |
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| kindness | the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic |
| Adverbs | kindly | in a kind manner or out of kindness |
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English > kind: 4 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic / characteristic or quality. |
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| Example | "what kinds of desserts are there?" |
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| Synonyms | sort, form, variety |
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| Narrower | antitype | An opposite or contrasting type |
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| art form | (architecture) a form of artistic expression / expression (such as writing or painting or architecture) |
| brand, make | A recognizable kind |
| color, colour | (physics) the characteristic / characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction |
| description | sort or variety |
| flavor, flavour | (physics) the six kinds of quarks |
| genre | A kind of literary or artistic work |
| genus | A general kind of something |
| like, ilk | A kind of person |
| like, the like, the likes of | A similar kind |
| manner | A kind |
| model | A type of product |
| species | A specific kind of something |
| stripe | A kind or category |
| style | A particular kind (as to appearance) |
| type | A subdivision of a particular kind of thing |
| Broader | category | A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme |
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| Spanish | clase, especie, forma, género, tipo |
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| Catalan | classe, espècie, forma, mena, tipus |
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