take kindly to

1. 1.

   be willing or inclined to accept

   “He did not take kindly to my critical remarks”

   Broadertend

Questions about take kindly to

What does take kindly to mean?

take kindly to means "be willing or inclined to accept".

Is take kindly to a common word?

take kindly to is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.