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  kind of
      adv 1: to some (great or small) extent; "it was rather cold";
             "the party was rather nice"; "the knife is rather dull";
             "I rather regret that I cannot attend"; "He's rather good
             at playing the cello"; "he is kind of shy" [syn:
             rather, kind of, kinda, sort of]

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "kind of":
     a bit, a little, as it were, extremely, fairly, in a manner,
     in a measure, in a way, in some measure, moderately, more, pretty,
     quite, rather, scarcely, slightly, so to speak, somewhat, sort of,
     to a degree, to some extent, very