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Antonyms for kind
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
kind
Amiable combines the senses of lovable or lovely and loving; the amiable character has ready affection and kindliness for others, with the qualities that are adapted to win their love; amiable is a higher and stronger word than good-natured or agreeable. Lovely is often applied to externals; as, a lovely face. Amiable denotes a disposition desirous to cheer, please, and make happy. A selfish man of the world may have the art to be agreeable; a handsome, brilliant, and witty person may be charming or even attractive, while by no means amiable. The engaging, winning, and winsome add to amiability something of beauty, accomplishments, and grace. The benignant are calmly kind, as from a height and a distance. Kind, good-natured people may be coarse and rude, and so fail to be agreeable or pleasing; the really amiable are likely to avoid such faults by their earnest desire to please. The good-natured have an easy disposition to get along comfortably with every one in all circumstances. A sweet disposition is very sure to be amiable, the loving heart bringing out all that is lovable and lovely in character.
Antonyms:
acrimonious, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, disagreeable, dogged, gruff, hateful, ill-conditioned, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, morose, sour, sullen, surly, unamiable, unlovelySynonyms:
agreeable, amiable, attractive, benignant, engaging, gentle, good-natured, harming, lovable, lovely, loving, pleasant, pleasing, sweet, winning, winsome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
kindnoun
Synonyms:
style, character, description, designation, denomination, genus, species, sort, class, nature, set, breedkindadjective
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unkind, harsh, severe, cruel, hard, illiberalSynonyms:
benevolent, benign, tender, indulgent, humane, clement, lenient, compassionate, gentle, good, gracious, forbearing, kind-hearted
Princeton's WordNet
kind, sort, form, varietyadjective
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
"sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
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unkindly, unsympathetic, harsh, stinging, rough, hurtful, unforgiving, unkind, edged, inhospitable, cuttingSynonyms:
course, figure, flesh, frame, shape, conformation, sort, chassis, physical body, multifariousness, potpourri, soma, assortment, diverseness, human body, contour, grade, sorting, cast, form, mannikin, mannequin, physique, phase, word form, change, configuration, class, variant, motley, variety show, pattern, bod, miscellany, signifier, smorgasbord, miscellanea, descriptor, salmagundi, manikin, variety, strain, anatomy, mixture, mixed bag, var., diversity, material body, manakin, buildkindadjective
having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior
"kind to sick patients"; "a kind master"; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"; "thanked her for her kind letter"
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inhospitable, unforgiving, harsh, edged, cutting, unkind, unkindly, rough, hurtful, stinging, unsympathetickind, genialadjective
agreeable, conducive to comfort
"a dry climate kind to asthmatics"; "the genial sunshine";"hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"
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edged, unkindly, cutting, unsympathetic, inhospitable, unforgiving, hurtful, unkind, rough, harsh, stingingSynonyms:
tolerant, mental, genial, cordial, affable, amiablekind, tolerantadjective
tolerant and forgiving under provocation
"our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"
Antonyms:
hurtful, unsympathetic, unkindly, stinging, inhospitable, unforgiving, edged, harsh, rough, cutting, unkindSynonyms:
large-minded, resistant, broad, patient of, liberal, tolerant, genial
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
kindadjective
Synonyms:
indulgent, compassionate, merciful, lenient, clement, benignant, gracious, benevolent, kind-hearted, forbearing, benign, beneficent, humane, obligingkindnoun
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variety, genus, species, strain, breed, nature, genre, sort, style, character, description, kidney
Editors Contribution
banter
opposite to banter.
How to use kind in a sentence?
The more you get older you start to realize that I don't jump as high and I don't run as fast as some of these guys in the NBA, but it's kind of funny how it all worked out. I always wanted to be in the NBA but I never saw myself getting into the NBA the way I am in it now.
He just kind of came in and surprised me with a stuffed animal, and I thought it was really cute.
He knew or he should have known that what that man was asking was not only way out of bounds, it was untrue, and he should have, from the beginning, repudiated that kind of rhetoric, that level of hatefulness of a questioner in an audience that he was appearing before.
(The) technology is initially coming from robotics where it's used to give robots kind of a feeling similar to the human body, to human skin. However, we are the first to look into how we can use it on the body to control mobile devices; so as a kind of second-skin which nicely conforms to your body.
This was not a golf outing. This was not a real estate transactional kind of arrangement. ... Engagement must be connected to a strategic interest, a strategic purpose. I don't know what that strategic purpose was. I am now convinced we didn't have one.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#596 | hard | |
#1139 | kind | |
#3717 | cutting | |
#3964 | severe | |
#5548 | rough | |
#11289 | cruel | |
#11437 | harsh | |
#12027 | sour | |
#20256 | edged | |
#30054 | hateful | |
#40176 | stinging | |
#41434 | crusty | |
#46824 | surly | |
#50489 | dogged | |
#54344 | hurtful | |
#55808 | disagreeable | |
#58451 | sullen | |
#60472 | unforgiving | |
#60499 | unkind | |
#60813 | gruff | |
#78003 | inhospitable | |
#84577 | unsympathetic | |
#86369 | morose | |
#103017 | acrimonious | |
#115125 | illiberal | |
#149185 | churlish | |
#175249 | unkindly | |
#212513 | unlovely | |
#251752 | crabbed |
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