Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having much kindness of nature; also, proceeding from or characterized by kindness of heart.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition
  • adjective having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition

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Examples

  • She did not speak, but Clark's father read a statement outside court, calling his son "a loving, caring, kind-hearted son, brother, fiance and friend."

    Fiancee Stands By Annie Le Murder Suspect AP 2011

  • She did not speak, but Clark's father read a statement outside court, calling his son "a loving, caring, kind-hearted son, brother, fiance and friend."

    Fiancee Stands By Annie Le Murder Suspect AP 2011

  • Telling people the truth about agricultural subsidies--that they're a racket--takes a fair amount of bravery, as most people still suffer the delusion that they're a kind-hearted attempt to rescue family farms from the Dust Bowl.

    Ian Fletcher: The Disappointing Economics of Rick Santorum Ian Fletcher 2012

  • She did not speak, but Clark's father read a statement outside court, calling his son "a loving, caring, kind-hearted son, brother, fiance and friend."

    Fiancee Stands By Annie Le Murder Suspect AP 2011

  • We have not heard any GOP gang member becoming a kind-hearted individual, ever, towards the un-and under-insureds.

    Senate opens debate on health care bill 2009

  • Telling people the truth about agricultural subsidies--that they're a racket--takes a fair amount of bravery, as most people still suffer the delusion that they're a kind-hearted attempt to rescue family farms from the Dust Bowl.

    Ian Fletcher: The Disappointing Economics of Rick Santorum Ian Fletcher 2012

  • Telling people the truth about agricultural subsidies--that they're a racket--takes a fair amount of bravery, as most people still suffer the delusion that they're a kind-hearted attempt to rescue family farms from the Dust Bowl.

    Ian Fletcher: The Disappointing Economics of Rick Santorum Ian Fletcher 2012

  • Telling people the truth about agricultural subsidies--that they're a racket--takes a fair amount of bravery, as most people still suffer the delusion that they're a kind-hearted attempt to rescue family farms from the Dust Bowl.

    Ian Fletcher: The Disappointing Economics of Rick Santorum Ian Fletcher 2012

  • Telling people the truth about agricultural subsidies--that they're a racket--takes a fair amount of bravery, as most people still suffer the delusion that they're a kind-hearted attempt to rescue family farms from the Dust Bowl.

    Ian Fletcher: The Disappointing Economics of Rick Santorum Ian Fletcher 2012

  • Sugiko has the more complicated situation, with suitors including a poor but honorable working man, a kind-hearted but ineffectual rich beau and casting agents from a film studio.

    Silent Films, Silent Sorrow David Mermelstein 2011

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