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    Definition of kind of in English Dictionary

  • Adverb
    1. IDI COL Slightly; somewhat; sort of.
      1. I'm getting kind of tired. Could we finish tomorrow?
      2. That's the right answer, kind of.
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    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • She thus gave herself a kind of superpresence, allowing us to see that the source of all the explosive energy we had witnessed onstage was her diminutive frame.
      • Certainly FDR was a master of his own kind of whitemail and practiced it on the likes of Harry Hopkins.
      • ...some authors have claimed that the slang of the criminal was a kind of international language for thieves, a Volapük of crime.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Adverbs
      • Uncomparable adverbs
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    Meaning of kind of for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this idiom "kind of" is an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb.
    Definiteness: Level 1
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