kindly
Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
Adjective 2 meanings
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.
Adverb 4 meanings
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.”
With kind acceptance; used with take.
“I don't take kindly to threats.”
Etymology
From Middle English kyndely, kyndeliche, from Old English cyndelīċ (“natural, kindly”); equivalent to kind + -ly.
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KINDLY at a glance
KINDLY has 6 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (K 5 + I 1 + N 1 + D 2 + L 1 + Y 4) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,038 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with kindly
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- KINDLE11
- KINGLY14
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