TENDERHEARTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenderhearted mean? 

• TENDERHEARTED (adjective)
  The adjective TENDERHEARTED has 2 senses:

1. easily moved to love

2. easily moved by another's distress

  Familiarity information: TENDERHEARTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENDERHEARTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Easily moved to love

Similar:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

Derivation:

tenderheartedness (warm compassionate feelings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Easily moved by another's distress

Context example:

a noble tenderhearted creature who sympathizes with all the human race

Similar:

compassionate (showing or having compassion)

Derivation:

tenderheartedness (warm compassionate feelings)

 Context examples 

I rather miss my wild girl, but if I get a strong, helpful, tenderhearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I am tenderhearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even their mother missed them; and how much more their tenderhearted cousin, who wandered about the house, and thought of them, and felt for them, with a degree of affectionate regret which they had never done much to deserve!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Don't despond, but hope and keep happy, said Mrs. March, as tenderhearted Daisy stooped from her knee to lay her rosy cheek against her little cousin's pale one.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tenderhearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves and are not ashamed to own it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)