grim vs kind

grim

adj
  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

verb
  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

kind

adj
  • Mild, gentle, forgiving 

  • Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others. 

  • Favorable. 

  • Gentle; tractable; easily governed. 

  • Affectionate. 

noun
  • A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen. 

  • Equivalent means used as response to an action. 

  • A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. 

  • Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter. 

  • Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine. 

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