A helpful and considerate nature can be described as kind. It is kind of someone to volunteer to rake their elderly neighbor's leaves in the fall. As a noun, kind refers to the variety or specific type of something.
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Noun
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
Adjective S.
generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an openhearted gift to charity"
Adjective S.
conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"
Adjective S.
showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed thoughtful attention"
Adjective S.
tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"
Adjective S.
liberal; "kind words of praise"
Adjective S.
helpful to other people; "helping an old lady with her bundles was his kind deed for the day"
Adjective S.
agreeable; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"
Adjective S.
characterized by mercy, and compassion; "compassionate toward disadvantaged people"; "kind to animals"; "a humane judge"
Adjective
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"
Adjective S.
expressing sympathy
superl.
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's
nature; natural; native.
superl.
Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial;
sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
superl.
Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and
confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant;
gracious.
superl.
Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness,
gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
superl.
Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in
harness.
a.
Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
a.
Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or
humankind.
a.
Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety;
description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style,
and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
v. t.
To beget.
Kind
It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.2.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault.3.
He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil.
O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.4.
Kind
He knew by kind and by no other lore.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.2.
Every kind of beasts, and of birds.
She follows the law of her kind.
Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed.3.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds !
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers ?
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.
Kind
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
To beget.
Usage Examples
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.
'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.
'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.
'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
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Other Usage ExamplesA lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.
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