tender
/ˈtɛn.də(ɹ)/
Dictionary
noun
- Care, kind concern, regard.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
adjective
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
"tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit"
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
"Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children."
- Young and inexperienced.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
"tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain"
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
"a tender subject"
- Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
- Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
Synonyms:nesh
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