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kinda | very |

As adverbs the difference between kinda and very

is that kinda is (colloquial) kind of; somewhat while very is to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

As a contraction kinda

is (colloquial) 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, , primarily found in angola, the democratic republic of the congo, zambia, and possibly western tanzania.

As an adjective very is

true, real, actual.

kinda

English

Etymology 1

Written form of a of "kind of"

Adverb

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  • (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 ----

    very

    English

    (wikipedia very)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • True, real, actual.
  • :
  • *Bible, (w) xxvii. 21
  • *:whether thou be my very son Esau or not
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.
  • *(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • *:I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.}}
  • The same; identical.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.
  • With limiting effect: mere.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:We have many examples in our daies, yea in very children, of such as for feare of some slight incommoditie have yeelded unto death.

    • Synonyms

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    Adverb

    (-)
  • To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • True, truly.
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    • Usage notes

    * When used in their senses as degree adverbs, "very" and "too" never modify verbs.

    Synonyms

    * (to a great extent) ever so, (l) (dialectal), (l) (archaic), (l) (dialectal)

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