kindly

/ˈkaɪndli/

gentle and friendly

She kindly offered to help with the project.

She offered help in a gentle and friendly way.

formalinformal

Gentle, friendly, and considerate in behavior or manner.

The teacher kindly corrected the student's mistakes.

The teacher corrected the student's mistakes in a gentle and helpful way.

Can be used as an adjective or adverb.

formalinformal

Used politely to make a request or ask for something.

Kindly send me the documents by Friday.

Please send me the documents by Friday.

Often used in formal or professional communication.

Collocations

kindly askto request politelykindly remindto remind politelykindly noteto inform politely

Use 'kindly' to soften requests in formal or professional settings.

From Middle English 'kinde', from Old English 'cynde' (nature), related to 'kin'. The sense of 'gentle' developed in the 14th century.

Can be used as an adjective to describe a person's character or as an adverb to modify verbs in a polite request.

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