Synonyms for kindly
- adjective
- adverb
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All synonyms
Adjective
1. Gracious
kind, gracious, generous, sympathetic, considerate, friendly, good-hearted, benevolent, pleasant, nice, kind-hearted, warm-hearted, gentle, good, charitable, cordial, benign, good-natured, soft-hearted, open-hearted, affable, merciful
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Adverb
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.
- adv. 1
In a kind manner, out of kindness.
He kindly offered to take us to the station in his car.
Related words
- Word family
- kindliness
Example sentences
- friendly My boyfriend is smart, handsome, and friendly too.
- generous You're one of the most generous people I ever met.
- gracious I didn't know that you are such a gracious person.
- considerate It was very considerate of you to do that for Tom.
- thoughtful It's thoughtful of you to remind me of my promise.
- attentive Come on, be attentive, so you don’t let me go wrong.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1, kind1, nice1
- 6 letters
- please1, gentle2, benign2
- 7 letters
- cordial2, affable3
- 8 letters
- friendly2, generous3, pleasant2, gracious2, merciful3, amicably4
- 9 letters
- attentive3
- 10 letters
- charitable4, thoughtful2, benevolent4
- 11 letters
- sympathetic4, considerate4
- 12 letters
- thoughtfully3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gentle2 = 2 syllables).