Kinda

Pronunciation

Written form of a reduction (linguistics) of "kind of"

Full definition of kinda

Adverb

1. (colloquial) kind of; somewhatI kinda hafta do this right now.That's kinda funny.
• 1912, 12, , Somewhere Safe to Sea, But when I spoke about it he just smiled and shook his head, and started whistling to himself kinda soft.
• 2006, Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, Same Kind of Different As Me, page 13,In those days, flour sacks was kinda purty. They might come printed up with flowers on em, or birds.
• 2010, Eric Anthony Galvez DPT CSCS, Reversal: When a Therapist Becomes a Patient, page 37,The facial expression on my mask kinda looks like Han Solo in the carbonite...

Contraction

1. (colloquial) kind of.
• 2008, Jacob Curtis, The Song Itself: A Gnostic Remembrance, page 68,What kinda music do ya want ta play? Do ya want volume or somethin' more subtle?

Interjection

1. Yes in some respects but no in other respects.

After the town of Kinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Noun

1. A subspecies of baboon, , primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
• 2006, National Geographic (magazine), Volume 212, Issues 4-6, page 18,In the wild, when a baboon called a kinda pairs with a chacma or yellow baboon, their progeny is still a baboon — but it's a hybrid of interest to Society grantees Jane Phillips-Conroy and Clifford Jolly, who are tracking gene flow in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park.

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