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[ UK /kˈa‍ɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˈkaɪnd/ ]
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?
ADJECTIVE
  1. agreeable, conducive to comfort
    the genial sunshine
    hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet
    a dry climate kind to asthmatics
  2. having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior
    kind to sick patients
    thanked her for her kind letter
    a kind master
    kind words showing understanding and sympathy
  3. tolerant and forgiving under provocation
    our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke

How To Use kind In A Sentence

  • Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
  • It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
  • If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
  • The premise kinda sounds interesting and it has a good cast, but it also sounds a bit too overdramatic and emo … Anime Preview: Spring 2010 « Undercover
  • I guess the suddenness of it all kind of numbed me to it a little. Casting clues and possible solutions
  • While the site focuses mainly on their environmental concerns, they're also up in arms about the Bush administration's general abuse and disregard for science - including the idea that abstinence is some kind of cureall. News from the House of Sticks -
  • Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
  • This is exactly the kind of nitwittery that mikey is addicted to. BuzzFlash.net: published
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