Synonyms for tender
- adjective
- noun
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Painful
painful, sensitive, sore, delicate, fragile, weak, compassionate, vulnerable, raw, frail, aching, immature, feeling, yielding, smarting, feeble, susceptible, unstable
2. Soft — fond, loving, gentle, or sweet
soft, affectionate, loving, sentimental, warm-hearted, mild, gentle, kind, nice, merciful, dear, gracious, fond, sympathetic, amorous, brotherly, pitying, humane, benevolent, kindly, lenient, clement
Other
young, mellow, touching, soft-handed, dainty, youthful, careful, feminine, piteous, chewable, paternal, nesh
Noun
1. Ship's boat
2. Legal tender
Verb
1. Offer
offer, bid, proffer, proposition, advance, administer, propose
Definitions
- adj. 1
Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
- adj. 2
Sensitive or painful to the touch.
- n. 1
The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
- v. 1
To work on a tender.
Related words
- Word family
- tenderfoot tender-hearted tenderize tenderling tenderloin tenderness tenderstem
- Phrases
- legal tender chicken tender seaplane tender water tender
- Is a kind of
- person
Example sentences
- sensitive Slavery is still a sensitive subject around here.
- painful She is still in the painful process of growing up.
- delicate Oil on canvas can never paint a petal so delicate.
- compassionate My parents taught me to be a compassionate person.
- loving I am loving Tatoeba despite all its imperfections.
- affectionate She smiled in response to his affectionate glance.
By length
- 3 letters
- car1, raw1, bid1
- 4 letters
- kind1, nice1, dear1, weak1, soft1, mild1, sore1, fond1, nesh
- 5 letters
- money2, young1, offer2, stamp1, crank1, frail1, dingy2, tippy2
- 6 letters
- loving2, gentle2, kindly2, cutter2, humane2, aching2, mellow2, feeble2, cranky2, dainty2
- 7 letters
- present2, feeling2, advance2, careful2, painful2, propose2, fragile2, clement2, lenient3, amorous3, pitying3, proffer2, piteous, pinnace
- 8 letters
- proposal3, touching2, delicate3, unstable3, feminine3, immature3, gracious2, youthful2, yielding2, merciful3, paternal3, overture3, smarting2, chewable
- 9 letters
- sensitive3, attendant3, brotherly3, tenderize, tenderise
- 10 letters
- vulnerable4, administer4, benevolent4
- 11 letters
- proposition4, sympathetic4, susceptible4, sentimental4
- 12 letters
- affectionate4
- 13 letters
- compassionate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (money2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- tendre
- Italiano
- tenero
- Español
- afectuoso
- Deutsch
- nachgiebig
- Català
- tendre