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Definitions

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  • adverb idiomatic, colloquial Slightly; somewhat; sort of.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb to some (great or small) extent

Etymologies

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From a reanalysis "kind of" in a phrase such as "a kind of merry dance" from noun ("kind") and preposition ("of") from the prepositional phrase "of merry dance" to adverb modifying "merry".

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synonyms (24)

Words with the same meaning

  1. a bit
  2. a little
  3. as it were
  4. extremely
  5. fairly
  6. in a manner
  7. in a measure
  8. in a way
  9. in some measure
  10. kinda
  11. kindof
  12. moderately
  13. more
  14. pretty
  15. quite
  16. rather
  17. scarcely
  18. slightly
  19. so to speak
  20. somewhat
  21. sort of
  22. to a degree
  23. to some extent
  24. very

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