'Tender' definitions:
Definition of 'tender'
From: WordNet
adjective
Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother" [ant: tough]
adjective
adjective
Young and immature; "at a tender age"
adjective
Having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" [syn: affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm]
adjective
Easy to cut or chew; "tender beef" [ant: tough]
adjective
adjective
adjective
(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"
noun
Something that can be used as an official medium of payment [syn: tender, legal tender, stamp]
noun
Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another [syn: attendant, attender, tender]
noun
A formal proposal to buy at a specified price [syn: bid, tender]
noun
Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
noun
noun
Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships [syn: tender, supply ship]
verb
Offer or present for acceptance
verb
verb
Make a tender of; in legal settlements
verb
Definition of 'Tender'
From: GCIDE
- Tender \Ten"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tendered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tendering.] [F. tendre to stretch, stretch out, reach, L. tendere. See Tend to move.]
- 1. (Law) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To offer in words; to present for acceptance. [1913 Webster]
- You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender down Their services to Lord Timon. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tender'
From: GCIDE
- Tender \Tend"er\, n. [From Tend to attend. Cf. Attender.]
- 1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tender'
From: GCIDE
- Tender \Ten"der\, n.
- 1. (Law) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest. [1913 Webster]
- Note: To constitute a legal tender, such money must be offered as the law prescribes. So also the tender must be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- A free, unlimited tender of the gospel. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. --Shak. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- Legal tender. See under Legal.
- Tender of issue (Law), a form of words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tender'
From: GCIDE
- Tender \Ten"der\, a. [Compar. Tenderer; superl. Tenderest.] [F. tendre, L. tener; probably akin to tenuis thin. See Thin.]
- 1. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. [1913 Webster]
- Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. [1913 Webster]
- The tender and delicate woman among you. --Deut. xxviii. 56. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. [1913 Webster]
- The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. --James v. 11. [1913 Webster]
- I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. [1913 Webster]
- I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. "Tender of property." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. [1913 Webster]
- You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. "Things that are tender and unpleasing." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Naut.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Tender is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed, tender-looking, tender-minded, tender-mouthed, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive; compassionate; kind; humane; merciful; pitiful. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tender'
From: GCIDE
- Tender \Ten"der\, n. [Cf. F. tendre.] Regard; care; kind concern. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tender'
From: GCIDE
- Tender \Ten"der\, v. t. To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- For first, next after life, he tendered her good. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Tender yourself more dearly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity. Our western princes tendered his case, which they counted might be their own. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tender'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepting,
- accord,
- aching,
- administer,
- adoring,
- advance,
- affectionate,
- afford,
- agonizing,
- ailing,
- airline hostess,
- airline stewardess,
- algetic,
- allergic,
- allot,
- allow,
- amatory,
- amorous,
- anaphylactic,
- angry,
- attendant,
- attentive,
- award,
- baggage car,
- batman,
- bellboy,
- bellhop,
- bellman,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- bestow,
- bestow on,
- bid,
- bills,
- bleeding,
- boat,
- bold,
- bootblack,
- boots,
- boxcar,
- brotherly,
- budding,
- burning,
- cabin boy,
- caboose,
- caddie,
- callow,
- car,
- careful,
- caring,
- carriage,
- cash,
- cautious,
- chafed,
- chair car,
- charitable,
- chewable,
- chore boy,
- Christian,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- circumspect,
- clement,
- coach,
- coal car,
- commiserative,
- communicate,
- compassionate,
- compensate,
- compensation,
- complaisant,
- condolent,
- confer,
- conjugal,
- considerate,
- copyboy,
- covered waggon,
- creamy,
- cupbearer,
- curious,
- currency,
- dainty,
- dangerous,
- day coach,
- deal,
- deal out,
- decent,
- delicate,
- demonstrative,
- devoted,
- dewy,
- difficult,
- diner,
- dinghy,
- dining car,
- dish out,
- dispense,
- dole,
- dole out,
- donate,
- drawing room,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- eatable,
- edible,
- eggshell,
- emotionable,
- emotional,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- errand boy,
- errand girl,
- extend,
- faithful,
- fee,
- feeble,
- feeling,
- festering,
- fiery,
- filial,
- fit for sea,
- flat,
- flatcar,
- fond,
- footboy,
- forbearant,
- forbearing,
- forgiving,
- fork out,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fraternal,
- galled,
- Ganymede,
- gentle,
- gift,
- gift with,
- gig,
- give,
- give freely,
- give out,
- gloss,
- gofer,
- gondola,
- good,
- good-natured,
- goosy,
- gracious,
- grant,
- green,
- growing,
- guerdon,
- hand out,
- heap,
- heartfelt,
- Hebe,
- heedful,
- help to,
- hold forth,
- hold out,
- hostess,
- human,
- humane,
- hurting,
- husbandly,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- immature,
- impart,
- impassioned,
- impressionable,
- impubic,
- indemnify,
- inexperienced,
- infirm,
- inflamed,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- intact,
- iridescent,
- irritable,
- irritated,
- issue,
- itchy,
- juicy,
- juvenile,
- kind,
- kindhearted,
- kindly,
- kindly-disposed,
- languishing,
- launch,
- lavish,
- lax,
- lenient,
- let have,
- light,
- local,
- lovelorn,
- lovesick,
- lovesome,
- loving,
- luggage van,
- mail car,
- mail van,
- maternal,
- maudlin,
- mawkish,
- mellow,
- mellowy,
- melting,
- merciful,
- mete,
- mete out,
- mild,
- mindful,
- minor,
- moderate,
- mollified,
- money,
- mother-of-pearl,
- moving,
- nacreous,
- naive,
- nervous,
- new,
- new-fledged,
- nice,
- nonresistive,
- nonrigid,
- offer,
- office boy,
- office girl,
- opalescent,
- orderly,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- page,
- painful,
- palace car,
- pale,
- parental,
- parlor car,
- passenger car,
- passible,
- passionate,
- pastel,
- paternal,
- patient,
- patinaed,
- pay,
- pay by installments,
- pay on,
- payment,
- pearly,
- pitying,
- poignant,
- pose,
- pour,
- prefer,
- prepay,
- present,
- presentation,
- prickly,
- proffer,
- proposal,
- propose,
- proposition,
- provocative,
- Pullman,
- Pullman car,
- purpose,
- put forward,
- put up,
- quiet,
- railway car,
- rain,
- rankling,
- raw,
- receptive,
- recompense,
- red,
- reefer,
- refined,
- refrigerator car,
- regardful,
- remit,
- remunerate,
- render,
- responsive,
- reward,
- ripening,
- romantic,
- roomette,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- salary,
- sappy,
- satisfy,
- sea-kindly,
- seaworthy,
- semigloss,
- sensible,
- sensitive,
- sentimental,
- serve,
- set before,
- shaky,
- shell out,
- shower,
- sickly,
- simple,
- skiff,
- skittish,
- sleeper,
- slip,
- smarting,
- smoker,
- smoking car,
- snow,
- snug,
- sober,
- soft,
- soft as putty,
- soft-colored,
- soft-hued,
- softened,
- softhearted,
- solicitous,
- somber,
- soothing,
- sore,
- soul-stirring,
- specie,
- squire,
- steward,
- stewardess,
- stiff,
- stirring,
- stockcar,
- subdued,
- submit,
- subtle,
- suggest,
- supersensitive,
- susceptible,
- sweet,
- sympathetic,
- sympathizing,
- tactful,
- tank,
- tenderhearted,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- thoughtful,
- ticklish,
- tingling,
- tolerant,
- touching,
- touchy,
- trainbearer,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- truck,
- unadult,
- underage,
- understanding,
- undeveloped,
- unfledged,
- unformed,
- uninitiated,
- unlicked,
- unmellowed,
- unripe,
- unseasoned,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- untrained,
- unwell,
- usher,
- uxorious,
- van,
- vehicle,
- vernal,
- virginal,
- vouchsafe,
- vulnerable,
- waggon,
- wagon,
- warm,
- warm-hearted,
- warmhearted,
- waterproof,
- watertight,
- weak,
- weatherly,
- whisper-soft,
- wifely,
- yeoman,
- yield,
- yielding,
- young,
- youthful
Words containing 'Tender'
- Tendered,
- Tenderer,
- Tendering,
- Tenderly,
- Tenderness,
- tenderization,
- tenderize,
- tenderized,
- tenderizer,
- Gate tender,
- Legal tender,
- Tender of issue,
- Water tender,
- rebound tenderness,
- tender age,
- tender offer,
- tender spot,
- Tender-hearted,
- Tender-heartedly,
- Tender-heartedness,
- Tender-hefted,
- chief water tender,
- tender loving care