Kind of
adv, slang
adv, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Slightly; somewhat; sort of. colloquial, idiomatic, not-comparable
"I'm getting kind of tired. Could we finish tomorrow?"
Adverb
- 1 to some (great or small) extent wordnet
Example
More examples"I'm getting kind of tired. Could we finish tomorrow?"
Etymology
From a reanalysis of kind of in a phrase such as a kind of merry dance from “a kind + of + merry dance” (a type among merry dances) to “a + kind-of merry + dance” (a somewhat merry dance).