Meanings
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, →OCLC1 more example
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.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveeasily moved to love
adjectiveeasily moved by another's distress
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek εὔσπλαγχνος
- εὔσπλαγχνος (eúsplankhnos)compassionate
Bulgarian състрадателен, милостив
- състрадателен (săstradatelen)compassionate
- милостив (milostiv)compassionate
Irish maothchroíoch
- maothchroíochcompassionate
Latin misericors
- misericorscompassionate
Norwegian ømhjertet
- ømhjertetcompassionate
Polish kochliwy
- kochliwycompassionate
Spanish enamoradizo
- enamoradizocompassionate
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