kindly
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.
- 2.
(dated)Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
- 3.
(archaic)Lawful.
- 4.
(obsolete)Natural; inherent to the kind or race.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
In a kind manner, out of kindness.
He kindly offered to take us to the station in his car.
- 2.
In a favourable way.
- 3.
Used to make a polite request: please.
Kindly refrain from walking on the grass.
May we request that patrons kindly take their seats.
- 4.
(US)With kind acceptance; used with take.
I don't take kindly to threats.
Aunt Daisy didn't take it kindly when we forgot her anniversary.
- 5.
(dialectal)Kind of, somewhat.
- 6.
(archaic)Readily.
- 7.
(obsolete)Naturally.
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From Middle English kyndely, kyndeliche, from Old English cyndelīċ (natural, kindly); equivalent to kind + --ly.