tenderhearted

Thân thiện

A tenderhearted woman helps a lost child find their parents.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having a kind, gentle, and compassionate nature; easily moved to feel sympathy, pity, or love. A tenderhearted person is sensitive to the feelings and suffering of others and is often quick to offer comfort or help.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She was too tenderhearted to ignore the stray kitten and brought it home.
  • His tenderhearted response to their apology showed his forgiving nature.
  • The story was so sad that even the most stoic among them felt a little tenderhearted.

Advanced Usage

• "tenderheartedness" (noun): The quality or state of being tenderhearted.
  • Her tenderheartedness was evident in her volunteer work at the shelter.

Variants and Related Words

• Tender-hearted (adj): An alternative hyphenated spelling with the same meaning.
• Tenderheart (n, archaic/rare): A tenderhearted person.

Synonyms

• Compassionate
• Kindhearted
• Softhearted
• Sympathetic
• Warmhearted

Antonyms

• Callous
• Hardhearted
• Heartless
• Unfeeling
• Unsympathetic

Học thuật

Adjective

1. easily moved by another's distress
   • a noble tenderhearted creature who sympathizes with all the human race- W.M.Thackeray
2. easily moved to love