tender
/ˈtɛn.dɚ/ adjectif B2En français : tendre, sensible
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate. · tender plants· tender flesh
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Soft and easily chewed.
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet. · Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
- Young and inexperienced. · I first had a girlfriend at the tender age of seven.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic. · tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
Comparatif tenderer · Superlatif tenderest
Dans la bibliothèque
He called to her and earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest she fall by some mishap; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender.
What is that little animal you are so tender of?”
A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body.
When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around in his breast; and he told Dorothy he had discovered it to be a kinder and more tender heart than the one he had owned when he was made of flesh.
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