Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
kind (noun)1.
a) archaic - nature
b) archaic - family lineage
2.
archaic - manner
3.
fundamental nature or quality - essence
4.
a) a group united by common traits or interests - category
b) a specific or recognized variety - what kind of car do you drive
c) a doubtful or barely admissible member of a category - a kind of gray
5.
a) goods or commodities as distinguished from money - payment in kind
b) the equivalent of what has been offered or received type
1.
chiefly dialect - affectionate loving
2.
a) of a sympathetic or helpful nature
b) of a forbearing nature - gentle
c) arising from or characterized by sympathy or forbearance - a kind act
3.
of a kind to give pleasure or relief
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
kind (adjective)1.
given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others
SYNONYMS:
attentive, considerate, kind, solicitousRELATED WORDS:
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, magnanimousNEAR ANTONYMS:
inattentive, uncaring, unheeding; inhospitable, unkind, unkindly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, rude, uncivil, unmannerly; unhelpful; malevolent, malicious, mean, spiteful2.
having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others
SYNONYMS:
beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmheartedRELATED WORDS:
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 ( philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing; anticruelty, cruelty-freeNEAR ANTONYMS:
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, uncharitable1.
a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common
SYNONYMS:
breed, class, description, feather, genre, ilk, kidney, kind, like, manner, nature, order, species, strain, stripe, type, varietyRELATED WORDS:
model; sample, specimen; bracket, bunch, category, division, family, grade, group, grouping, lot, persuasion, rank(s), set, suite2.
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic
SYNONYMS:
bracket, category, classification, division, family, genus, grade, group, kind, league, order, rank(s), rubric, set, species, tier, typeRELATED WORDS:
description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort; branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety; breed, race; generation; heading, label, title