1. having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature: "she was a good, kind woman"
▪ used in a polite request: "would you be kind enough to repeat what you said?"
▪ (of a consumer product) gentle on (a part of the body): "look for rollers that are kind to hair"
▪ affectionate or loving.
Word OriginOld Englishgecynde ‘natural, native’; in Middle English the earliest sense is ‘well born or well bred’, whence ‘well disposed by nature, courteous, gentle, benevolent’.
