4 entries found for tender.
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Function: adjective
Text: 1 easily injured without careful handling <a tender wound> <tender plants that cannot take the cold> <tender pride that got bruised when his girlfriend dumped him>
Synonyms delicate, fragile, frail, sensitive
Related Words breakable, brittle; flimsy, puny, soft, weak; nonhardy, perishable, resistless, susceptible, unresistant, vulnerable, yielding
Near Antonyms durable, firm, flinty, hard, hardy, resistant, robust, rugged, solid, sound, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial; nonbreakable, unbreakable; hardened, inured, strengthened, tempered, toughened
Antonyms tough
2 feeling or showing love <a tender embrace between father and daughter> -- see LOVING
3 having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others <a tender teacher who loves having kids with special educational needs in her class> -- see HUMANE 1
4 lacking bodily strength <a very tender child who always seems to be sick> -- see WEAK 1
5 not harsh or stern especially in manner, nature, or effect <his tender comments on how to improve her writing were gratefully received> -- see GENTLE 1