taking kindly to

The phrase “taking kindly to” has 5 syllables: tak-ing kind-ly to

It's pronounced as /tˈeɪkɪŋ ˈkaɪndli tə/


What is synonym and antonym for taking kindly to?

In the thesaurus, “taking kindly to” has 22 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for taking kindly to along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for taking kindly to

Antonyms for taking kindly to

  • blacklisting
  • censuring
  • condemning
  • criticizing
  • damning
  • denouncing
  • deprecating
  • depreciating
  • detesting
  • discountenancing
  • disfavoring
  • disliking
  • disparaging
  • hating
  • loathing
  • minding
  • opposing
  • reprehending
  • reprobating

Example Sentences

  • She wasn't taking kindly to the criticism of her work, feeling it was unjustified.
  • The cat is slowly taking kindly to its new owner, after being initially shy and aloof.
  • The manager was pleased to see his team taking kindly to the new software, improving efficiency significantly.
  • He didn't seem to be taking kindly to the idea of changing plans at the last minute.
  • Despite his initial hesitation, John was taking kindly to the idea of relocating to a new city for work.

On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to taking kindly to, such as: accepting, acclaiming, applauding, bearing, blacklisting, censuring, commending.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

accepting

  • abiding
  • abject
  • absorbing
  • acceding
  • acceptance
  • acceptive
  • acclaiming
  • accord
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • admiring
  • admission
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adoption
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • advisory
  • advocating
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • allowing
  • altering
  • amenable
  • applauding
  • applying
  • appreciative
  • approbatory
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • approving
  • arrogation
  • artless
  • assent
  • assenting
  • assuming
  • assurance
  • attending
  • attentive
  • attestation
  • authenticating
  • authentication
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • avowal
  • backing
  • bearing
  • becoming
  • belief
  • believing
  • biding
  • bleak
  • blue
  • born yesterday
  • bringing in
  • brokenhearted
  • brooking
  • buying
  • capitulating
  • certain
  • certainty
  • championing
  • cheerless
  • childlike
  • collecting
  • comfortless
  • commendatory
  • commending
  • compliance
  • complimentary
  • concentrating
  • concluding
  • confidence
  • confident
  • confiding
  • confirming
  • conjecture
  • consent
  • consenting
  • convinced
  • cooperation
  • corroborating
  • corroboration
  • countenancing
  • credit
  • crediting
  • credulous
  • crestfallen
  • cynical
  • dark
  • deducing
  • dejected
  • demonstration
  • dependence
  • dependent
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • disappointed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • down
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drawing
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dupable
  • earning
  • easy mark
  • embracing
  • employing
  • encomiastic
  • endorsement
  • endorsing
  • enduring
  • enjoying
  • espousing
  • eulogistic
  • evidence
  • expectation
  • faith
  • falling for
  • fancy
  • favorable
  • favoring
  • flattering
  • forlorn
  • friendly
  • funereal
  • gaining
  • gathering
  • getting
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • go ahead
  • going
  • going for
  • good
  • grab
  • green
  • green light
  • grieving
  • growing
  • guess
  • guileless
  • gullable
  • gullible
  • hacking
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • handling
  • hangdog
  • having
  • having faith
  • hearkening
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heeding
  • holding with
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • idolizing
  • inconsolable
  • indorsing
  • inference
  • inferring
  • inheriting
  • innocent
  • interested
  • joyless
  • kind
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • lauding
  • lenient
  • liking
  • living with
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • magnanimous
  • making
  • meeting
  • melancholy
  • merciful
  • miserable
  • mournful
  • naive
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • okay
  • okaying
  • open
  • open-minded
  • overconfident
  • overtrusting
  • panegyrical
  • passage
  • passing
  • paying attention
  • permission
  • permitting
  • pessimistic
  • pocketing
  • posit
  • positive
  • postulate
  • postulation
  • practicing
  • praiseful
  • praising
  • premise
  • presuming
  • presumption
  • presupposition
  • proof
  • proving
  • ratifying
  • reaccepting
  • reassuming
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • recognition
  • recommendatory
  • recommending
  • reliance
  • reliant
  • resigned
  • respectful
  • respecting
  • sad
  • saddened
  • saluting
  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • secure
  • securing
  • seizure
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • shot
  • shot in the dark
  • shouldering
  • simple
  • sneaking suspicion
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stab
  • stamp of approval
  • standing
  • standing by
  • standing for
  • sticking out
  • stock
  • stomaching
  • store
  • submitting to
  • substantiation
  • succumbing
  • suffering
  • support
  • supporting
  • supportive
  • supposal
  • supposing
  • supposition
  • sure
  • surmise
  • suspicion
  • sustaining
  • swallow whole
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • sympathetic
  • taken in
  • takeover
  • taking
  • taking kindly to
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • taking up
  • testament
  • testimonial
  • testimony
  • testing
  • theorization
  • theory
  • thesis
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncritical
  • understanding
  • undertaking
  • undoubting
  • unhappy
  • unquestioning
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • upholding
  • usurpation
  • validating
  • verification
  • verifying
  • visa
  • wailing
  • warm
  • warrant
  • warranting
  • wearing
  • weeping
  • welcoming
  • witness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • working
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wretched
  • yes

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