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tender-hearted

tender-hearted is the alternative form of tenderhearted.

Meaning of tenderhearted

Adjective

tenderhearted (comparative more tenderhearted, superlative most tenderhearted)

  1. Compassionate for another's distress.
    • I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. Easily moved to love.

Forms of tender-hearted

comparativemore tender-hearted
comparativetenderer-hearted
superlativemost tender-hearted
superlativetenderest-hearted

Words formed from tender-hearted

Questions about tender-hearted

What is tender-hearted the alternative form of?
Tender-hearted is the alternative form of tenderhearted.

Words near tender-hearted in the dictionary

  1. tender years doctrine
  2. tender years doctrines
  3. tender-first
  4. tender-handed
  5. tender-handedly
  6. tender-hearted
  7. tender-heartedly
  8. tender-heartedness
  9. tender-heartednesses
  10. tender-minded
  11. tender-mindedly

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