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Adjective tender has 8 senses
- tender - given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother"
Antonyms: tough, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious, tough-minded, unsentimental
- sensitive, sore, tender - hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"
Antonym: painless (indirect, via painful)
- tender, vulnerable - susceptible to physical or emotional injury; "at a tender age"
Antonym: old (indirect, via young)
- affectionate, caring, fond, lovesome, tender, warm - having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace"
Antonym: unloving (indirect, via loving)
- tender - easy to cut or chew; "tender beef"
Antonyms: tough, cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery, chewy, coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery, sinewy, stringy, unchewable, hempen, fibrous
- tender, untoughened - physically untoughened; "tender feet"
Antonyms: tough, toughened, calloused, thickened, enured, inured, hardened, weather-beaten
- crank, cranky, tender, tippy - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
Antonym: stable (indirect, via unstable)
- tender - (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"
Antonym: rugged (indirect, via delicate)
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