Qualities
Synonyms for kind
Synonyms for kind: tolerant, genial and form. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for kind
Interchangeable with kind, one per sense
Audited under kind's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one kind carries in that sense.
- tolerantadjective, in the sense "tolerant and forgiving under provocation"
- genialadjective, in the sense "agreeable, conducive to comfort"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name kind as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- formform is a noun in the sense "a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality"
The first group is filed under kind's own senses. The second reaches kind from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
tolerant and forgiving under provocation
Our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke.
The true synonym
tolerant
Same sentence, swapped: Our neighbor was very tolerant about the window our son broke.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where kind stands in the sentence above.
- fine
- sound
- royal
agreeable, conducive to comfort
A dry climate kind to asthmatics.
The true synonym
genial
Same sentence, swapped: A dry climate genial to asthmatics.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for kind in the sentence quoted.
- tolerant
- sound
- human
Where kind turns up in the game
kind is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where kind is the trap
- fineadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is okay, in the sense "being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition", and kind is one of the three tiles that lose.
- niceadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dainty, in the sense "excessively fastidious and easily disgusted", so kind is there to be ruled out.
Play kind
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so kind reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. kind carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.