tender

Meaning

Adj

1. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
2. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
3. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
4. Soft and easily chewed.
5. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
6. Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
7. Young and inexperienced.
8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
10. Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
11. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
12. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.
2. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

Adv

tenderly

Verb

1. To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
2. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
2. A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
3. A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
4. A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
5. A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.

Verb

To work on a tender.

Noun

1. Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
2. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
3. A formal offer to buy or sell something.
4. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

Verb

1. To offer, to give.
2. To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

Synonyms

soft

gentle

delicate

bid

offer

affectionate

young

kind

loving

mild

smooth

fond

sweet

sensitive

unripe

compassionate

sore

green

immature

tame

polite

raw

present

docile

weak

fine

tenderize

limp

pleasant

fragile

fresh

short

merciful

affable

friendly

frail

kindly

submit

cordial

meek

dainty

attendant

nice

attender

ship’s boat

presentation

proposal

propose

render

careful

caressing

vulnerable

warm

☀️

graceful

painful

susceptible

detailed

beautiful

supple

bland

perform

suggest

pinnace

suave

become tender

donate

be sore

helpless

stamp

lovesome

lovely

introduce

supply ship

tenderise

pliant

cranky

light

innocent

😇

proffer

intimate

be gentle

keeper

proposition

endearing

exquisite

lenient

bidding

submit a tender

quiet

legal tender

crank

tippy

competition

amiable

untoughened

calm

cutter

mellow

sympathetic

purvey

pusillanimous

put forward

put up

quotation

best

refined

rendition

represent

rickety

ripe

romantic

rot

sacrifice

satisfying

scow

serve up

sheepish

show

slight

small

softhearted

solicitous

sprouting

squeamish

subdued

subscribe

subtle

succulent

temperate

tenderhearted

tenderly

thin

thin-skinned

ticklish

timid

timorous

touchy

treat

unadventurous

underquote

unskilled

utter

verdant

volunteer

warmhearted

watchdog

well-balanced

well-done

winsome

worthless

yielding

youthful

provisor

blate

by-bid

caregiver

coal car

not yet ripe

very soft

well-adjusted

program sponsoring

programme sponsoring

advocacy

be soft

become gentle

coal-car

request for proposal

RFP

not ripe

submit a bid

exciting pity

kindly-disposed

make soft

touchy-feely

form of tender

application for tenders

book of tender

yellowish leek

hotbed chives

beloving

reenact

good

👍

aching

achy

act

administrator

advance

aery

afford

alluring

amorous

an

attached

auction

awkward

balmy

bargain

benevolent

blooming

blunt

brittle

buxom

caretaker

charitable

charming

chickenhearted

clement

considerate

constitute

crisp

dear

decay

decompose

depict

depot ship

dim

disarming

done

easy

extend

faint

faint-hearted

fair

familiar

feature

feeling

flat

for

friable

full-blown

furnishing

genial

gig

give

good-hearted

good-natured

gracious

grant

guardian

hand in

heartfelt

hearty

hold out

hospital

🏥

humane

impressionable

indicate

inexperienced

in love

❤️

intro

introduction

kind-hearted

kindness

little

look out

loose

make an offer

make an offer of

mature

mellowed

melting

minder

money

💸

mournful

mousy

nostalgic

nurse

offering

offertory

offer up

paramedic

pathetic

pay

💸

pay out

pitiable

pitiful

pitying

play

pliable

Hyphenated as

ten‧der

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛn.də(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: tender

Inherited from Middle English: tendren

In summary

From Middle English tender, tendere, from Anglo-Norman tender, Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum (“soft, delicate”).

Sentences

In Britain it flowers less profusely and even has a reputation for being tender .