tenderhearted

Examples

• All

• This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

  Academic text (1992)

• Underneath her burgundy hair and skin-tight minidress, she was actually a sweet, tenderhearted girl.

  Fiction book (1999)

• God, how much I cried when I was a kid too, how tenderhearted I was, Walt thinks.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Nobody sees it, but he's tenderhearted, you know. "I know."

  Fiction book (1999)

• Oh, you're fine and decent and tenderhearted.

  Bad Girl (1931)

• How could a tenderhearted woman not succumb in pity and love to his need?

  Fiction book (1998)

• Bless you, she's the most tenderhearted little creature alive.

  The Mikado (1939)

• You are so tenderhearted.

  Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)

• Tenderhearted readers, unaccustomed to the scientific norm, might have thought I was awfully hard on Roger.

  Blog text (17)

• I admired other things as well, for Illimar appeared unusually tenderhearted and doleful, and Asta had to reassure him with discreet pats.

  Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

K

kind

vstenderhearted

534 1.0

Being helpful and caring toward other people

focuses more on tender sympathy than broad helpful behavior

S

sympathetic

vstenderhearted

152 3.4

Feeling or showing kindness and understanding to someone who is upset

puts stronger emphasis on gentle compassion rather than just understanding

T

tender

vstenderhearted

110 1.6

Showing care and kindness in a gentle way

stresses compassionate sympathy more than direct emotional warmth

H

humane

vstenderhearted

90 3.4

Showing kindness and care to people or animals to avoid suffering

expresses personal gentle care rather than formal humanitarian concern

K

kindly

vstenderhearted

11 1.0

Being gentle and caring to other people

centers more on sensitive compassion than general goodwill

K

kind-hearted

vstenderhearted

9 2.5

A person who cares about others and often helps them

is more about delicate sympathy than general helpfulness

S

sweet-natured

vstenderhearted

2 3.2

Kind and gentle toward others

is more focused on active sympathy than just pleasantness

S

softhearted

vstenderhearted

1 3.4

A person who feels sorry for others and helps them

is gently caring but not necessarily easily emotionally affected

W

warmhearted

vstenderhearted

1 3.7

Kind and friendly to other people

leans more toward quiet sympathy than overt friendliness

O

openhearted

vstenderhearted

1 4.1

Shows kindness and honesty, sharing feelings with others

centres on quiet compassion rather than emotional openness

L

largehearted

vstenderhearted

4.1

Showing kindness and generosity by helping or forgiving others

focuses more narrowly on gentle sympathy than on generosity

G

greathearted

vstenderhearted

• Literature

8.2

Being kind and generous and ready to forgive and help others

expresses tender sympathy more than large scale generosity

Antonyms

C

cruel

522 2.7

Willing to cause pain or suffering to others

H

heartless

• Offensive

79 4.1

Not showing kindness or sympathy to others

How Compassionate

empathetic

30 4.4

compassionate

151 3.7

tenderhearted

1 3.1

kind

534 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology