kind of

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