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kind of

adv

Etymology

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).

Definitions

  1. Slightly

    Slightly; somewhat; sort of.

    • I'm getting kind of tired. Could we finish tomorrow?
    • That's the right answer, kind of.
    • He kind of hated the idea of Hugo having been with someone else, even though that was superhypocritical, considering Brand's own previous arrangements with Ramie and Jackson.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kind of. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA