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- English Word Tender Definition Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
- English Word Tender Definition The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
- English Word Tender Definition Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
- English Word Tender Definition Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- English Word Tender Definition Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
- English Word Tender Definition Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
- English Word Tender Definition Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
- English Word Tender Definition Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
- English Word Tender Definition Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
- English Word Tender Definition Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
- English Word Tender Definition Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
- English Word Tender Definition Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
- English Word Tender Definition Regard; care; kind concern.
- English Word Tender Definition To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
- English Word Tender-hearted Definition Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.
- English Word Tender-hefted Definition Having great tenderness; easily moved.
- English Word Tendered Definition of Tender
- English Word Tenderfoot Definition A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
- English Word Tendering Definition of Tender
- English Word Tenderling Definition One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.