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2. kinship, relationship, relation, consanguinity, alliance, connection; blood, blood ties, flesh and blood, family ties; common ancestry, patrilineage, matrilineage, parentage; affiliation, cognation, agnation, enation; propinquity, nearness, closeness; extraction, lineage, descent, stock, breed, stirps; ilk, kind, line, sept.
-adj. 3. akin, related, kindred, fraternal, twin; consanguineous, consanguine, cognate, agnate, enate, german, uterine; affiliated, family, allied, affined, affinal; near, close, propinquitous; of the same family, of the same blood, of the same nature.
kind1, adj. 1. good, benevolent, benign, benignant, beneficent; mild, gentle, tender, Fr. gentil; compassionate, loving, Inf. Christian, humane, decent, noble, human; gracious, generous, charitable, bounteous, giving; lionhearted, big-hearted, altruistic, magnanimous, humanitarian, philanthropic; warmhearted, kindhearted, tender-hearted, soft-hearted; clement, lenient, temperate, merciful, pitying, placable, unhardened.
2. considerate, understanding, thoughtful; indulgent, forbearing, forbearant, patient, forgiving; helpful, obliging, accommodating; chivalrous, gallant, courteous; neighborly, friendly, nice, genial, hospitable, affable; kindly, cordial, amiable, amicable, good-natured, well-disposed; well-meant, well-meaning, well-intended, well-intentioned, well-affected; sympathetic, sympathizing, warm, affectionate, commiserating; tactful, diplomatic, delicate, mindful, heedful; motherly, fatherly, maternal, paternal, grandmotherly, grandfatherly; brotherly, fraternal, sisterly, cousinly, avuncular.
kind2, n. 1. class, category, genre, order; group, set, suit, variety; genus, species, phylum, subgenus, subspecies, strain, sept; race, breed, people, folk; clan, family, tribe, brood, ilk, kin, stock, stirps.
2. nature, aspect, character, temperament, disposition, temper, humor, habit; persuasion, bent, leaning, inclination, diathesis; lot, style, manner, cast, mold, stamp, brand, kidney; grain, make, mark, cue; color, stripe, streak, feather, vein; description, designation, number, Inf. the like or likes of.
3. type, sort, exemplar, representative, case; example, specimen, instance, sample.
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in kind in like manner, in the same way, in the same manner, similarly, correspondingly, likewise, like.
5. kind of Informal, a little, a bit, to a degree, Inf. sort of, in a way, to some extent; somewhat, rather, pretty, fairly.
kindhearted, adj. warm-hearted, good-natured, good-hearted; good, gentle, nice. See - kind (defs. 1, 2).
kindheartedness, n. goodness, compassion, warmheartedness. See - kindness (defs. 1, 2).
kindle, v. 1. fire, ignite, torch, deflagrate, burn, burn up or down, set aflame or alight or on fire, set fire to, put to the torch, put or apply a match to, Obs. accend, Obs. flagrate.
2. incite, provoke, actuate, poke, prod, prick, goad, prompt, spur; encourage, urge, abet, egg on, put up to; instigate, foment, agitate, suscitate, excite, impassion, intensify, arouse, rouse, madden, craze, stir up, wind up, work up, whip up, lash into a fury, Inf. psych up, heat up, Obs. calefy, fire up, inflame, enflame, enkindle, touch off, ignite the spark, stir the embers, stoke or fuel or fan the fire, add fuel to the flames or fire.
3. stimulate, animate, reanimate, whet, invigorate, motivate, inspirit, inspire, galvanize, electrify, Inf. spark; energize, activate, vivify, rally, revive, enliven, liven up, pep up, awaken, wake up, waken, shake up, jolt, jog; push, drive, press, force, force along, propel, hound, whip, lash, flog; impel, induce, compel, constrain, move, stir, fillip; evoke, elicit, call forth, sum-
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