What's the difference between kind and unkind?

Kind


Definition:

  • (superl.) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
  • (superl.) Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
  • (superl.) Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
  • (superl.) Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
  • (superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
  • (a.) Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
  • (a.) Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
  • (a.) Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
  • (v. t.) To beget.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
  • (2) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
  • (3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (4) Two kinds of silicafiberscopes with outer diameters 0.80 and 0.45 mm were used in the present study.
  • (5) Among the 295 nonpathogenic strains, 115 were sensitive to all antibiotics whereas the rest were resistant to 1-5 kinds of antibiotics.
  • (6) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
  • (7) Further, metastatic tumors were capable of being successfully grown in a high percentage of cases, which was comparable to the results obtained for other kinds of tumors.
  • (8) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
  • (9) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
  • (10) High score on the hysteria scale of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire was a risk indicator for all kinds of back pain.
  • (11) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
  • (12) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (13) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
  • (14) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
  • (15) The authors have analyzed their observations of 113 patients and concluded that it is necessary to differentially use various kinds of osteosynthesis and bone autoplasty.
  • (16) This factor was named interleukin-8 (IL-8) since it is produced by various kinds of cells in response to inflammatory stimuli including LPS, IL-1 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and has pleiotropic effects on T lymphocytes and basophils as well as neutrophils.
  • (17) Both kinds of experiments show that 1, 25-(OH)2D3 has effects on embryonic bone which are typical for high concentrations of parathyroid hormone (PTH).
  • (18) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
  • (19) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
  • (20) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?

Unkind


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.
  • (a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
  • (a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
  • (2) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
  • (3) Somehow, British zoos still enjoy a protected, deeply forgiving space, in a nation of pet lovers, for manifest unkindness towards animals.
  • (4) Mottling of teeth can have significant psychological impact on patients--particularly on adolescents, who may be subjected to much unkind teasing.
  • (5) This agenda might unkindly be described as systematic anti-liberalism with a seasoning of resentment and paranoia.
  • (6) The place to go in parliament for unkind evaluations of Miliband’s legacy is the Labour benches.
  • (7) But sometimes the revelations come fast, and when they do, they are usually particularly unkind.
  • (8) But clearly results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.
  • (9) I'd forgotten quite how swathey it was, rather unkindly imagining literary novelists and Big Thinkers in stripped-pine north London would be over-represented.
  • (10) And while Özil is allowed to have a poor game, it is hard to block out the memory of those unkind whispers on his departure from Madrid about his conditioning and stamina.
  • (11) Irony Steven Friedman , director of Rhodes and Johannesburg universities, said: "It has to be said that one of the great ironies of the debates about how we should receive Barack Obama is that, while a lot of South Africans are very sympathetic to him because he's the first African-American president, "I don't think that it's unkind to say that he's done absolutely nothing for this continent.
  • (12) I got to know him quite well after that and never once did I see him being unkind or inconsiderate to people.
  • (13) The academic Steve Bruce once unkindly stated: "When Ulster Protestants talk about being British, it is clear that the Britain they have in mind is no more recent than the 1950s, and often their points of reference are positively Victorian."
  • (14) Unkind though it is to remind him of his own cruel witticism aimed at Gordon Brown when he was at his weakest, there is now more than something of Mr Bean about Dr Cable.
  • (15) If modern life is unkind to our mental health, it’s no doubt in part because so many young people fear that admission of vulnerability will affect their employment, or their relationships, at a time when their futures are already far less clear than those of their parents.
  • (16) The results of this study lend weight to the argument that those who wish to have their facial abnormalities reduced may be accurately reporting that society is unkind to them.
  • (17) History tends to be unkind to those who embrace the evil practices of those they once denounced.
  • (18) Ruben Loftus-Cheek provided the visitors’ second, sliding a pass through the centre for Oscar to collect before McFadzean was aware of his presence, the finish crisply clipped into the far corner from an unkind angle.
  • (19) The crime also inspired a Bollywood film – on which MacKeown was never consulted, but later said “was not unkind” in its depiction of her daughter.
  • (20) On Thursday, as one SNP fundraising leaflet unkindly but accurately put it, the party has a chance to “complete the set”, making it the dominant force in all areas of Scotland’s political life.