Munificent vs Kindly - What's the difference?
munificent | kindly | Synonyms |
(of a person or group) Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
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Very generous; lavish.
* 1886 , , Jo's Boys , ch. 1:
* 1914 , , A Daughter of the Dons , ch. 25:
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Having a kind personality.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) Favourable; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.
* Alexander Pope
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) natural
* Book of Common Prayer
* Spenser
* L. Andrews
In a kind manner, out of kindness.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
in a favourable way.
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Please; (used to make a polite request).
(US) With kind acceptance; .
Munificent is a synonym of kindly.
As adjectives the difference between munificent and kindly
is that munificent is (of a person or group) very liberal in giving or bestowing while kindly is having a kind personality.As an adverb kindly is
in a kind manner, out of kindness.munificent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Tellson's Bank . . . was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
Politics: Milkmen Skimming Off More Cream," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- [M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S.
Broad-Minded Museum," New York Review of Books (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard.
- On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
- It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift.
Business: Up, Up and Away with Wages," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- The machinists finally agreed to a munificent increase averaging 5.7% a year for three years.
Synonyms
* bounteous, generous, liberalkindly
English
Adjective
(er)- A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.
- The shade by which my life was crossed has made me kindly with my kind.
- In soft silence shed the kindly shower.
- should e'er a kindlier time ensue
- the kindly fruits of the earth
- an herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting
- Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men.
Adverb
(en adverb)- He kindly offered to take us to the station in his car.
- She was both beautiful and young to their eyes. Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl.
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- Kindly refrain from walking on the grass.
- Kindly move your car out of the front yard.
- I don't take kindly to threats.
- Aunt Daisy didn't take it kindly when we forgot her anniversary.