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tenderhearted

adj

Etymology

From tender + hearted.

  1. inherited from herted
  2. compounded as tenderhearted — “tender + hearted”

Definitions

  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.
    • 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.

  2. Easily moved to love.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA