kindly

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
2. (dated) Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
3. (archaic) Lawful.
4. (obsolete) Natural; inherent to the kind or race.

Adv

1. In a kind manner, out of kindness.
2. In a favourable way.
3. Used to make a polite request: please.
4. (US) With kind acceptance; used with take.
5. (dialectal) Kind of, somewhat.
6. (archaic) Readily.
7. (obsolete) Naturally.

Concepts

gentiment

aimablement

gentil

charitablement

complaisamment

bon

👍

bénin

bienveillant

gentillement

veuillez

je vous prie

s’il vous plait

affable

obligeant

serviable

gentilment

avec gentillesse

avec précaution

débonnaire

complaisant

doucement

amène

allez-y

Synonymes

friendly

kind

gently

tenderly

benevolent

cordial

amicable

charitable

softly

nicely

please

generous

benign

affectionately

good-hearted

politely

affable

welcoming

gentle

good

👍

mild

amiable

benignant

complaisant

soft

affably

pleasant

sympathetic

nice

accommodatingly

amiably

large-hearted

gracious

kind-hearted

tender

genially

warmheartedly

complacently

approvingly

sweet

pitying

smoothly

charitably

neighbourly

obliging

favorably

fair

merciful

mildly

openhearted

Traductions

freundlich

gentilmente

vriendelijk

amable

nett

entgegenkommend

amablemente

bondadoso

αγαθός

umgänglich

amável

bondoso

👍

gentil

leutselig

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈkaɪndli/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: kyndely

Hérité de ancien anglais: cyndelīċ

Hérité de moyen anglais: kyndly

Hérité de ancien anglais: ġecyndelīċe

In summary

From Middle English kyndely, kyndeliche, from Old English cyndelīċ (“natural, kindly”); equivalent to kind + -ly.