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say it: kahynd
kind is an adjective and noun meaning "having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior". It is pronounced /ˈkaɪnd/ — kahynd. It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
agreeable, conducive to comfort
“a dry climate kind to asthmatics”
“the genial sunshine”
“hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kind come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.