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Kinda vs Rather - What's the difference?

kinda | rather |

As adverbs the difference between kinda and rather

is that kinda is kind of; somewhat while rather is more quickly; sooner, earlier.

As a contraction kinda

is kind of.

As an interjection kinda

is yes in some respects but no in other respects.

As a noun kinda

is a subspecies of baboon, subspecies: Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.

As a verb rather is

to prefer; to prefer to.

As an adjective rather is

prior; earlier; former.

kinda

English

Etymology 1

Written form of a of "kind of"

Adverb

(-)
  • (colloquial) kind of; somewhat
    • I kinda hafta do this right now.
    That's kinda funny.
  • *{{quote-magazine
    • , date=12 , year=1912 , month=October , first= Courtney Ryley , last=Cooper , author= , coauthors= , title=Somewhere Safe to Sea , volume=50 , issue= , page=18 , magazine=Collier's , publisher=Crowell-Collier Publishing Company , issn= v=onepage&q=collier's%20kinda%20soft&f=false'>citation , passage=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

  • (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

    (en interjection)
  • Yes in some respects but no in other respects.

    • Etymology 2

    After the town of Kinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (kinda baboon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A subspecies of baboon, , primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
  • * 2006 , , 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.

    Anagrams

    * English contractions ----

    rather

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) More quickly; sooner, earlier.
  • Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably. (Now usually followed by than )
  • *
    • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
  • (conjunctive) Used to introduce a contradiction; on the contrary.
  • (conjunctive) Introducing a qualification or clarification; more precisely. (Now usually preceded by or .)
  • * 1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew) :
    • What the pupil already knew was indeed rather taken for granted than expressed, but it performed the useful function of transcending all textbooks and supplanting all studies.
  • * 1898, J. A. Hamilton, ", Volume LIV: Stanhope–Stovin , The MacMillan Company, page 60,
    • His ‘Iliad’ is spirited and polished, and, though often rather a paraphrase than a translation, is always more truly poetic than most of the best translations.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
  • (degree) Somewhat, fairly.

    • Usage notes

    * (somewhat) This is a non-descriptive qualifier'', similar to quite and fairly and somewhat. It is used where a plain adjective needs to be modified, but cannot be qualified. When spoken, the meaning can vary with the tone of voice and stress. "''He was rather big''" can mean anything from "not small" to "huge" (meiosis with the stress on ''rather ).

    Synonyms

    * liever, liefer, as lief * (to a certain extent) somewhat, fairly, quite

    Antonyms

    * (somewhat) utterly

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard, or, dialectal) To prefer; to prefer to.
  • * 1984 , Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man :
    • Until just before the pie was popped into the heat. A few of them suddenly realized who put that gorgeous hunk of crackers together, and gaped. We grinned back, but very cool. The ones who knew said nothing, rathering to die than let on they had been hustled by two negative dudes.
  • * 2002 , Sarah Waters, Fingersmith :
    • It was a plain brown dress, more or less the colour of my hair; and the walls of our kitchen being also brown, when I came downstairs again I could hardly be seen. I should have rathered a blue gown, or a violet one
  • * 2002 , Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day :
    • So you must excuse my saying anything I did: all it was, that up to the very last I had understood us all to be friendly — apart, that is, from his rathering me not there. How was I to know he would flash out so wicked?
  • * 2007 , Mikel Schaefer, Lost in Katrina , page 323:
    • "That was a killer," said Chris. "I'd rathered' die in St. Bernard than spent one minute over there. I would have ' rathered the storm, shaking with the wind and rain hitting in the boat for an eternity than spending any time there.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Prior; earlier; former.
  • * Sir J. Mandeville
    • Now no man dwelleth at the rather town.

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