| 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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