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kind of

kind of adverb: slightly; somewhat; sort of.

Adverb

kind of (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) Slightly; somewhat; sort of.
    • I'm getting kind of tired. Could we finish tomorrow?
    • That's the right answer, kind of.

kind of meaning in Malayalam and Tagalog

kind of in Malayalam

quite, rather, fairly
ഏറെക്കുറെ, ഏതാണ്ട്, അല്പസ്വല്പം, അസാരം, ഇച്ചിര, ഇച്ചിരി

kind of in Tagalog

somewhat
parang

Synonyms of kind of

Forms of kind of

alternative formkinda
alternative formkind-of

Origin of kind of

From a reanalysis of kind of in a phrase such as a kind of merry dance from “a kind + of + merry dance” (a type among merry dances) to “a + kind-of merry + dance” (a somewhat merry dance).

Questions about kind of

What does kind of mean?
Kind of means slightly; somewhat; sort of.
What is kind of in Malayalam?
Kind of in Malayalam is ഏറെക്കുറെ, ഏതാണ്ട്, അല്പസ്വല്പം. See Kind of meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is kind of?
Kind of is an adverb.

Words near kind of in the dictionary

  1. Kincsay
  2. Kincumber
  3. Kincumber South
  4. kind
  5. kind bud
  6. kind of
  7. kind of like
  8. kind regards
  9. kind've
  10. kind-hearted
  11. kind-heartedly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kind of (page history and authors); kind of (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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