tender-hearted

  • 11tender-hearted — adjective having a kind, gentle, or sentimental nature. Derivatives tender heartedness noun …

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  • 12tender-hearted — a. Affectionate, kind, compassionate, sympathetic, merciful, tender, pitiful …

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  • 13tender-hearted — ten|der heart|ed [ ,tendər hartəd ] adjective BRITISH FORMAL kind and sensitive …

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  • 14tender-hearted — UK [ˌtendə(r) ˈhɑː(r)tɪd] / US [ˌtendərˈhɑrtəd] adjective formal kind and sensitive …

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  • 15A Tender-Hearted Crook — Infobox Film name = A Tender Hearted Crook image size = caption = director = Anthony O Sullivan producer = writer = James G. Steven narrator = starring = Charles West music = cinematography = editing = distributor = released = 2 October, 1913… …

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  • 16Tender-heartedly — Tender hearted Ten der heart ed, a. Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. {Ten der heart ed*ly}, adv. {Ten der heart ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] Rehoboam was young and tender hearted …

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  • 17Tender-heartedness — Tender hearted Ten der heart ed, a. Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. {Ten der heart ed*ly}, adv. {Ten der heart ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] Rehoboam was young and tender hearted …

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  • 18tender — 1. adj. (tenderer, tenderest) 1 easily cut or chewed, not tough (tender steak). 2 easily touched or wounded, susceptible to pain or grief (a tender heart; a tender conscience). 3 easily hurt, sensitive (tender skin; a tender place). 4 delicate,… …

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  • 19tender — I adj 1. unfibrous, butterlike, crushable, soft, silken. 2. weak, delicate, feeble, frail, frail as a reed, unsturdy, slight, infirm; shaky, tottery, precarious, uncertain, unstable; poor, sickly, unwell, unhealthy, unsound, weakly; wretched,… …

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  • 20tender — {{11}}tender (adj.) soft, easily injured, early 13c., from O.Fr. tendre soft, delicate, tender (11c.), from L. tenerem (nom. tener) soft, delicate, of tender age, from PIE *ten stretch (see TENET (Cf. tenet)). Meaning kind, affectionate, loving… …

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