kindly

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
  • "kindly criticism"
  • "a kindly act"
• pleasant and agreeable
  • "a kindly climate"
  • "kindly breeze"

Adverb

• in a kind manner or out of kindness
  • "He spoke kindly to the boy"
  • "she kindly overlooked the mistake"

Adj

• Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
• Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
• Lawful.
• Natural; inherent to the kind or race.

Adv

• In a kind manner, out of kindness.
• In a favourable way.
• Used to make a polite request: please.
• With kind acceptance; used with take.
• Kind of, somewhat.
• Readily.
• Naturally.

Synonyms

affable, altruistic, attentive, be so kind as to, benevolent, benign, benignant, brotherly, charitable, clement, compassionate, considerate, cordial, forbearing, forgiving, friendly, generous, gentle, good, good-hearted, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, greathearted, humane, humanitarian, kind, kindhearted, large-hearted, lenient, magnanimous, merciful, mild, nice, noble, openhearted, patient, philanthropic, pitying, pleasant, please, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, thoughtfully, tolerant, understanding, unselfish, unsparing, warmhearted

Antonyms

barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, cold-blooded, cruel, hardhearted, hateful, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, malevolent, malicious, mean, savage, spiteful, stern, thick-skinned, unkindly, virulent

Anagrams of kindly