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kind of
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial kind of has 1 sense
- kind of(r = adv.all) kinda, rather, sort of - to some (great or small) extent; "it was rather cold"; "the party was rather nice"; "the knife is rather dull"; "I rather regret that I cannot attend"; "He's rather good at playing the cello"; "he is kind of shy"
THESAURUS
kind of
a bit, a little, as it were, extremely, fairly, in a manner, in a measure, in a way, in some measure, moderately, more, pretty, quite, rather, scarcely, slightly, so to speak, somewhat, sort of, to a degree, to some extent, very
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