kindly.
Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
Meaning & usage
Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.
Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
Lawful.
Natural; inherent to the kind or race.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English kyndely, kyndeliche, from Old English cyndelīċ (“natural, kindly”); equivalent to kind + -ly.
In a kind manner, out of kindness.
He kindly offered to take us to the station in his car.
In a favourable way.
Used to make a polite request: please.
Kindly refrain from walking on the grass.
May we request that patrons kindly take their seats.
With kind acceptance; used with take.
I don't take kindly to threats.
Aunt Daisy didn't take it kindly when we forgot her anniversary.
Kind of, somewhat.
Readily.
Naturally.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English kyndely, kyndly, kyndeliche, from Old English ġecyndelīċe, equivalent to kind + -ly.
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