Synonyms for kind

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tender, well-meaning, considerate, compassionate, benevolent, kindly, benign, generous, charitable, humane, merciful, loving, pleasant, amiable, soft, softhearted, kindhearted, sympathetic, understanding, solicitous, sweet, gentle, compliant, helpful, obliging, neighborly, accommodating, gracious, indulgent, noble-minded, motherly, fatherly, delicate, tactful, tenderhearted, warmhearted, good-natured, good-hearted, inoffensive, altruistic, other-directed, complaisant, lenient, acquiescent, easy-going, patient, tolerant, mellow, genial, sensitive, courteous, agreeable, thoughtful, assisting, well-disposed, willing, mollifying, benignant, good, doing good unto others; see also humane 1, merciful 1.

Antonyms cruel, brutal, unfeeling.

kind implies the possession of sympathetic or generous qualities, either habitually or specifically, or is applied to actions manifesting these he is kind only to his mother, your kind remarks; kindly usually implies a characteristic nature or general disposition marked by such qualities his kindly old uncle; benign suggests a mild or kindly nature and is applied especially to a gracious superior a benign employer; benevolent implies a charitable or altruistic inclination to do good his benevolent interest in orphans