tenderhearted
See also: tender-hearted
English
Adjective
tenderhearted (comparative more tenderhearted, superlative most tenderhearted)
- Compassionate for another's distress.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
- 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.
- Easily moved to love.
Derived terms
Translations
compassionate
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