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tender
What does tender mean?
tender (adjective): given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce tender?
/ˈtɛndɚ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does tender come from?
From Middle English tender, tendere, from Anglo-Norman tendre, Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum (“soft, delicate”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to tender
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “tender”?
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What does “tender” mean?
with little or no sound; free of disturbing noise
Not quite: that's what quiet means.
being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
Not quite: that's what parallel means.
given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
Right! That's what “tender” means.
less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
Not quite: that's what low means.
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