Word: tenderest
Sensitive or painful to the touch.
Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate. Example: tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit
Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Fond, loving, gentle, sweet. Example: Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
Young and inexperienced.
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic. Example: tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate. Example: a tender subject
Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
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