Tender
adjective
Soft and easily hurt or damaged.
My ankle is still tender from when I sprained it.
Often appears as...
- tender area
- tender skin
verb
To offer or give something to someone.
We tendered a bid for the contract.
Often appears as...
- tender resignation
- tender an offer
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Formal
adjective
To show gentleness, kindness, and affection.
She gave her son a tender look.
Often appears as...
- tender smile
- tender care
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Approving
adjective
Not old or mature; young.
The lamb was still at a tender age.
Often appears as...
- tender age
- tender years
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Literary
noun
A boat used to transfer people and supplies from a ship to shore.
The tender will take you to the mainland from the cruise ship.
Often appears as...
- ship's tender
- boat tender
noun
An official offer to supply goods or to do work at a stated price.
Our company submitted a tender for the construction project.
Often appears as...
- contract tender
- tender process
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Soft and easily hurt or damaged.
My ankle is still tender from when I sprained it.
Often appears as...
- tender area
- tender skin
verb
To offer or give something to someone.
We tendered a bid for the contract.
Often appears as...
- tender resignation
- tender an offer
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
To show gentleness, kindness, and affection.
She gave her son a tender look.
Often appears as...
- tender smile
- tender care
Usage tips
Approving
adjective
Not old or mature; young.
The lamb was still at a tender age.
Often appears as...
- tender age
- tender years
Usage tips
Literary
noun
A boat used to transfer people and supplies from a ship to shore.
The tender will take you to the mainland from the cruise ship.
Often appears as...
- ship's tender
- boat tender
noun
An official offer to supply goods or to do work at a stated price.
Our company submitted a tender for the construction project.
Often appears as...
- contract tender
- tender process
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 6
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Sensitivity
Used when referring to parts of the body that might feel pain when touched.
Be gentle with my wrist; it's still very tender.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Depth
Describes deep emotions when something evokes a strong, sympathetic response.
The movie's ending was so tender that I cried.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Sensitivity
Used when referring to parts of the body that might feel pain when touched.
Be gentle with my wrist; it's still very tender.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Depth
Describes deep emotions when something evokes a strong, sympathetic response.
The movie's ending was so tender that I cried.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Sensitivity
Used when referring to parts of the body that might feel pain when touched.
Be gentle with my wrist; it's still very tender.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Depth
Describes deep emotions when something evokes a strong, sympathetic response.
The movie's ending was so tender that I cried.
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Fatal Encounter with...
It also helps suppress the smell of the birth fluids that could attract a predator. A minute or so later and the baby was already trying to get up on its feet, but these newborns are vulnerable, out on the plains of Africa, and so have evolved to get up and running quickly. I was enjoying this tender moment between the mother and her newborn baby, when she started to look nervously into
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Before I die I want...
it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective, and remember that life is brief and tender. Death is something that we're often discouraged to talk about, or even think about, but I've realized that preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do.
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What will change Africa?...
competing against a company from one of their countries it walked up and said hi you know the grants we gave to Ghana government good you say our people are too expensive and they've lost the tender no problem use our grants we gave you last year to
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The power of vulnerabilit...
And it took about a year. And you know how there are people that, when they realize that vulnerability and tenderness are important, that they surrender and walk into it. that's not me, and I don't even hang out with people like that.
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Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
and instead, we championed the tender gestures of love and headlong flashes of youth. The agenda behind our cinematic immersion was only empathy, an emotion that's largely deficient from films that come from our region of the world.
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A hilarious celebration...
the tenderness, the vulnerability. There's actually kind of a love, an element of love in the relationship. I just see deeply into your soul. Do you think that, Jane -- But I have special powers. Well, there's all kinds of friends.
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Why should you read...
there’s a tenderness and integrity at the heart of his mission that keeps him moving forward. Gradually he comes to accept his inner confusion. In the end, his experience echoes the the deeper you go, the more you find.
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The gift and power of...
We need greater levels of emotional agility for true resilience and thriving. My journey with this calling began not in the hallowed halls of a university, but in the messy, tender business of life.
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The best stats you've...
the nice tenders it's as if the world is flattening off isn't it these countries are lifting more than the economy and will be very interesting to fall of this over the year as I would like you
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Follow a Transgender...
tender kneepads you know how sometimes life seems like you're you're living
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Fatal Encounter with...
It also helps suppress the smell of the birth fluids that could attract a predator. A minute or so later and the baby was already trying to get up on its feet, but these newborns are vulnerable, out on the plains of Africa, and so have evolved to get up and running quickly. I was enjoying this tender moment between the mother and her newborn baby, when she started to look nervously into
Video examples
Before I die I want...
it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective, and remember that life is brief and tender. Death is something that we're often discouraged to talk about, or even think about, but I've realized that preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do.
Video examples
What will change Africa?...
competing against a company from one of their countries it walked up and said hi you know the grants we gave to Ghana government good you say our people are too expensive and they've lost the tender no problem use our grants we gave you last year to
Video examples
The power of vulnerabilit...
And it took about a year. And you know how there are people that, when they realize that vulnerability and tenderness are important, that they surrender and walk into it. that's not me, and I don't even hang out with people like that.
Video examples
Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
and instead, we championed the tender gestures of love and headlong flashes of youth. The agenda behind our cinematic immersion was only empathy, an emotion that's largely deficient from films that come from our region of the world.
Video examples
A hilarious celebration...
the tenderness, the vulnerability. There's actually kind of a love, an element of love in the relationship. I just see deeply into your soul. Do you think that, Jane -- But I have special powers. Well, there's all kinds of friends.
Video examples
Why should you read...
there’s a tenderness and integrity at the heart of his mission that keeps him moving forward. Gradually he comes to accept his inner confusion. In the end, his experience echoes the the deeper you go, the more you find.
Video examples
The gift and power of...
We need greater levels of emotional agility for true resilience and thriving. My journey with this calling began not in the hallowed halls of a university, but in the messy, tender business of life.
Video examples
The best stats you've...
the nice tenders it's as if the world is flattening off isn't it these countries are lifting more than the economy and will be very interesting to fall of this over the year as I would like you
Video examples
Follow a Transgender...
tender kneepads you know how sometimes life seems like you're you're living
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Frances McDormand
American Actress
The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound.
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Henny Youngman
American Comedian
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
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Paula Cole
American Musician
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
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Anne Bronte
British Novelist
It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!
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Ethel Waters
American Musician
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
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Mo Udall
American Politician
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
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Susannah McCorkle
American Musician
People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.
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Isabelle Adjani
French Actress
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Gwendoline Christie
British Actress
If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.
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Frances McDormand
American Actress
The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound.
Quote examples
Henny Youngman
American Comedian
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
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Paula Cole
American Musician
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
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Anne Bronte
British Novelist
It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!
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Ethel Waters
American Musician
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
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Mo Udall
American Politician
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Quote examples
Susannah McCorkle
American Musician
People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.
Quote examples
Isabelle Adjani
French Actress
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Quote examples
Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Gwendoline Christie
British Actress
If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.
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