kindly
Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.
Example
“A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.”
Other meanings
Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
Natural; inherent to the kind or race.
Word history
From Old English "cyndelīċ" (natural, kindly).
Where this comes from
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