kindly

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

gentiment

vriendelijk

freundlich

gentilmente

aimablement

nett

entgegenkommend

αγαθός

amablemente

amable

bondadoso

umgänglich

leutselig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkaɪndli/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: kyndely

Inherited from Old English: cyndelīċ

Inherited from Middle English: kyndly

Inherited from Old English: ġecyndelīċe

In summary

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