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tendersome

tendersome adjective: characterised or marked by tenderness.

Adjective

tendersome (comparative more tendersome, superlative most tendersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by tenderness
    • I'm afraid she's not long for this world; poor dear young lady, she was never used to hard words, and can't bear it, for she was always a tendersome thing like, and now her strength is clean worn out.1837, Thomas Bacon, First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan
    • This ain't the safest place to sit'n'think, Zachry, said Meronym, so tendersome that fin'ly my tears oozed out.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

Forms of tendersome

comparativemore tendersome
superlativemost tendersome

Origin of tendersome

From tender + -some.

Questions about tendersome

What does tendersome mean?
Tendersome means characterised or marked by tenderness.
What part of speech is tendersome?
Tendersome is an adjective.

Words near tendersome in the dictionary

  1. tenderpreneurships
  2. tenderqueer
  3. tenderqueers
  4. tenders
  5. tendersful
  6. tendersome
  7. tenderstem
  8. tenderstems
  9. tendest
  10. tendeth
  11. tendido

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