take kindly
take kindly verb: to like, accept, or condone.
Verb
take kindly (third-person singular simple present takes kindly, present participle taking kindly, simple past took kindly, past participle taken kindly)
- To like, accept, or condone.
- An English passenger, taking kindly to me, drew me into conversation. He was older than I. He asked me what I ate, what I was, where I was going, why I was shy, and so on. He also advised me to come to table. He laughed at my insistence on abjuring meat, […]1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiii
- My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!1954 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 488
Forms of take kindly
| third-person singular present | takes kindly |
|---|---|
| present participle | taking kindly |
| past | took kindly |
| past participle | taken kindly |
Questions about take kindly
- What does take kindly mean?
- Take kindly means to like, accept, or condone.
- What part of speech is take kindly?
- Take kindly is a verb.
- What is the past tense of take kindly?
- The past tense of take kindly is took kindly.
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