kinda

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Pronunciation

• (also) IPA: /ˈkaɪnə/

Adverb

kinda (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) kind of; somewhat

   I kinda hafta do this right now.

   That's kinda funny.

   • 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...

Synonyms

• sorta

Interjection

1. Yes in some respects but no in other respects.

   "Are you afraid of a little bit of rain?" "Kinda, yeah."

Noun

kinda (plural kindas)

1. A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
   • 2006, The National Geographic Magazine, 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.

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