Shall I say the implication of a kind of and quite are the same?
eg
1) It's a kind of cold.
2) It's quite cold.
Tks / ju
I think you can put "quite" instead of "kind of" (though "quite" is more formal) but you can not put "kind of" instead of "quite" in all cases. Am I right or not? i looked it up in 2 dictionaries and I saw different meanings for "quite":
1. to the greatest extent; completely or absolutely
you're quite right quite the opposite
2. (not used with a negative) to a noticeable or partial extent; somewhat
she's quite pretty
(Collins dictionary)
1- to some degree: ........
2- completely: ...
(Macmillan dictionary)
I guess we can not use "kind of" instead of "quite" if quite means the first meaning in Collins or the second one in Macmillan.
Ofcourse I am not a native English speaker but there is something in the difinition of "quite" which stops me of saying: "the implications of "kind of" and "quite" are the same", sometimes it sounds to me that they are in opposition.