Kind and Mean

Opposite meaning words

Kind adjective - Given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others.

Usage example: providing the grieving widow with a homemade meal was a kind deed

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Mean is an antonym for kind in generous topic.

Nearby Words: kindly, kindness, kindliness

Mean adjective - Having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it.

Usage example: a mean, embittered old woman who wanted company for her misery

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Kind is an antonym for mean in topics: malicious, poor, hostile, ungenerous.

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

old	old kind	old mean
good	good kind	good mean
best	best kind	best mean
common	common kind	common mean
Other adjectives: specific, standard, true, brutal, powerful, real, big, unique, former, conventional, different, favorite.

They're kind of similar, except the palm-inward variant implied "I don't mean you, I mean the bloody Boche".

Source: Crazy Cultural Comparison
Molly: You don't mean trailing arthritis, you mean trailing arbutusnote A kind of flower.

Source: Chain of Corrections
And when we mean "Obsession with Death" we mean the Stalker with a Crush kind of obsession.

Source: Galactic Conqueror

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