in kind

1. 1.

   with something of the same kind

   “she pays him back in kind”

   Synonymsin a similar way

Questions about in kind

What does in kind mean?

in kind means "with something of the same kind".

What is another word for in kind?

Close synonyms include in a similar way. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in kind a common word?

in kind is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.