Courteous vs. Kind — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Courteous and Kind
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Courteous
Characterized by gracious consideration toward others.
Kind
A group of people or things having similar characteristics
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All kinds of music
Courteous
Showing regard or thought for others; especially, displaying good manners or etiquette.
A courteous gentleman
A courteous gesture
Kind
Each of the elements (bread and wine) of the Eucharist
Communion in both kinds
Courteous
Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.
A patient and courteous bearing.
His behavior toward his people is grave and courteous.
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Kind
Having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature
He was very kind to me
She was a good, kind woman
Courteous
Exhibiting courtesy and politeness;
A nice gesture
Kind
Having or showing a friendly, generous, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature.
Courteous
Characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners;
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world
Kind
Agreeable or beneficial
A dry climate kind to asthmatics.
Kind
A group of individuals or instances sharing common traits; a category or sort
Different kinds of furniture.
A new kind of politics.
Kind
A doubtful or borderline member of a given category
Fashioned a kind of shelter.
A kind of bluish color.
Kind
Underlying character as a determinant of the class to which a thing belongs; nature or essence.
Kind
The natural order or course of things; nature.
Kind
Manner or fashion.
Kind
Lineal ancestry or descent.
Kind
Lineal ancestors or descendants considered as a group.
Kind
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
What kind of a person are you?
This is a strange kind of tobacco.
Kind
A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
The opening served as a kind of window.
Kind
(archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
Kind
(archaic) Family, lineage.
Kind
(archaic) Manner.
Kind
Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
Kind
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
I'll pay in kind for his insult.
Kind
(Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
Kind
Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
Kind
Affectionate.
A kind man; a kind heart
Kind
Favorable.
Kind
Mild, gentle, forgiving
The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
Kind
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
A horse kind in harness
Kind
(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Kind
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.
Kind
Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,The love he bore to learning was his fault.
Kind
Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil.
O cruel Death, to those you take more kindThan to the wretched mortals left behind.
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Kind
Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
Kind
Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
Kind
Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
He knew by kind and by no other lore.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature,Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
Kind
Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
Every kind of beasts, and of birds.
She follows the law of her kind.
Here to sow the seed of bread,That man and all the kinds be fed.
Kind
Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play,And snows his power in variable kinds !
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers?
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.
Kind
To beget.
Kind
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
Sculpture is a form of art
What kinds of desserts are there?
Kind
Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior;
Kind to sick patients
A kind master
Kind words showing understanding and sympathy
Thanked her for her kind letter
Kind
Liberal;
Kind words of praise
Kind
Conducive to comfort; beneficial;
The genial sunshine
A kind climate
Hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet
Kind
Expressing sympathy
Kind
Characterized by mercy, and compassion;
Compassionate toward disadvantaged people
Kind to animals
A humane judge
Kind
Agreeable;
A dry climate kind to asthmatics
Kind
Helpful to other people;
Helping an old lady with her bundles was his kind deed for the day
Kind
Tolerant and forgiving under provocation;
Our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke
Kind
Showing consideration and anticipation of needs;
It was thoughtful of you to bring flowers
A neighbor showed thoughtful attention
Kind
Generously responsive;
Good-hearted but inept efforts to help
Take a kindly interest
A kindly gentleman
An openhearted gift to charity
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