tenderhearted
tenderhearted adjective: compassionate for another's distress.
Adjective
tenderhearted (comparative more tenderhearted, superlative most tenderhearted)
- 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
- The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169
- Easily moved to love.
tenderhearted meaning in Kannada
tenderhearted in Kannada
- ದಯಾರ್ದ್ರ, ಕೋಮಲ ಹೃದಯದ, ಮೃದು ಮನಸ್ಸಿನ
Forms of tenderhearted
| comparative | more tenderhearted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most tenderhearted |
Origin of tenderhearted
From tender + hearted.
Words formed from tenderhearted
Questions about tenderhearted
- What does tenderhearted mean?
- Tenderhearted means compassionate for another's distress.
- What is tenderhearted in Kannada?
- Tenderhearted in Kannada is ದಯಾರ್ದ್ರ, ಕೋಮಲ ಹೃದಯದ, ಮೃದು ಮನಸ್ಸಿನ. See Tenderhearted meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is tenderhearted?
- Tenderhearted is an adjective.
Words near tenderhearted in the dictionary
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