Sensitive or painful to the touch.
Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit
Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
Young and inexperienced.
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
a tender subject
Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
One who tenders (a bid, a contract, etc.).