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