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tender-minded

tender-minded is the alternative form of tenderminded.

Meaning of tenderminded

Adjective

tenderminded (comparative more tenderminded, superlative most tenderminded)

  1. Nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.
    • According to this theory, sexual and aggressive impulses are conditioned into tenderminded social attitudes, and the qualities associated both with femininity and with religiosity belong to this domain of tenderminded social attitudes.2009, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Jeff Astley, Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables, →ISBN, page 146
  2. Idealistic.
    • Among ethnologists what is certainly an idiographic approach is often pursued with the most ascetic toughmindedness. Where fact reigns supreme, any attempt at theory may appear tenderminded.1969, Mahlon Brewster Smith, Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 44

Forms of tender-minded

comparativemore tender-minded
superlativemost tender-minded

Words formed from tender-minded

Questions about tender-minded

What is tender-minded the alternative form of?
Tender-minded is the alternative form of tenderminded.

Words near tender-minded in the dictionary

  1. tender-handedly
  2. tender-hearted
  3. tender-heartedly
  4. tender-heartedness
  5. tender-heartednesses
  6. tender-minded
  7. tender-mindedly
  8. tender-mindedness
  9. tenderability
  10. tenderable
  11. tendered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tender-minded (page history and authors); tenderminded (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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