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4. illuminate, illumine, Archaic, illume, irradiate, light up, lighten, shine light, shed light, flood with light, floodlight, brighten, brighten up, Archaic, overshine.
kindliness, n. 1. goodness, benevolence, compassion, warm-heartedness. See - kindness (defs. 1, 2).
2. good deed, good turn, act of kindness. See - kindness (def. 3).
kindling, n. 1. firewood, Southern U.S. light-wood, brushwood, brush, driftwood; tinder, log, fagot, twigs, shavings, leaves; coal, charcoal; fuel, lighting or lighter fluid.
2. burning, firing, igniting, lighting, enflaming; enkindling, awakening, arousing, inciting, fomenting, fueling; stimulating, inspiriting, quickening, vivifying.
kindly, adj. 1. kindhearted, sympathetic, warm. See - kind (defs. 1, 2).
2. pleasant, agreeable, winsome, charming, taking; felicitous, welcome, inviting; fair, nice, pleasurable, dulcet; cheerful, warm, refreshing, sweet, enjoyable.
3. favorable, suitable, fit, adaptable, usable; serviceable, beneficial, advantageous, helpful; profitable, worthwhile, edifying; fertile, fecund, productive, prolific. -adv. 4. considerately, thoughtfully, understanding^, sympathetically; kindheartedly, tender-heartedly, warm-heartedly, soft-heartedly; benevolently, charitably, benignly, altruistically, philanthropically; compassionately, mildly, humanely, lovingly; mercifully, clemently, ruthfully, decently, nobly.
5. cordially, hospitably, graciously; heartily, warmly, genially, good-naturedly; deeply, profoundly, from the bottom of one's heart; amiably, amicably, affably, nicely.
6. favorably, agreeably, approvingly, affirmatively, acquiescently, assentingly; with liking, well, affectionately, fondly.
7. obligingly, please, pray, Archaic, prithee, Fr. s'il vous plait, if you please; be so good as to, have the goodness to, be good enough to, for mercy's sake, for goodness sake, for heaven's sake.,
kindness, n. 1. goodness, benevolence, benignity, benignancy, beneficence; mildness, gentleness, tenderness, Archaic, gentilesse; compassion, love, lovingness, brotherly love, humanity, humaneness, decency; generosity, charity, bounty, largesse; charitableness, good will, liberality, open-handedness; graciousness, lionheartedness, big-heartedness, altruism, unselfishness; philanthropy; warm-heartedness, kindheartedness, tender-heartedness, soft-heartedness, goodheartedness, bonhomie; clemency, leniency, lenity, temperance; mercy, ruth, ruthfulness, pity, quarter, bowels of compassion.
2. consideration, thoughtfulness, understanding; indulgence, forbearance, tolerance, patience, forgiveness; helpfulness, obligingness, chivalry, gallantry, courtesy; neighborliness, friendliness, friendship, niceness, geniality, hospitality, good-naturedness; kindliness, cordiality, amiability, amicability, affability; sympathy, empathy, commiseration; affection, warmth, fondness, liking; delicacy, mindfulness, heedfulness, diplomacy, tact; motherliness, fatherliness, maternalness, paternalness, grandmotherliness, grandfatherliness; brotherhood, sisterhood, brotherliness, sisterliness, fellow feeling, fellowship.
3. good deed, good turn, kind act, act of charity, act of grace, almsgiving, favor, SI. solid; service, aid, assistance, help, succor; relief, comfort, solace.
kindred, n. 1. family, tribe, clan, brood, house, household, hearth, ilk, Fr. menage; race, people, folks,
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