tender – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of tender

Adjective: tender

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativetenderer
Superlativetenderest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • […]poore Lord, is't I
  • That chaſe thee from thy Countrie, and expoſe
  • Thoſe tender limbes of thine[…] [c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
  • Be careful: that area is tender. [2006, Shrek, spoken by Shrek (Mike Myers):]
  • tender plants
  • tender flesh
  • tender fruit
  • the tender and delicate woman among you [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:56:]
  • The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender, succulent, and juicy. [2001, Joey Pantolino (character), The Matrix (movie)]
  • Our Bodies are not naturally more Tender than our Faces. [1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:]
  • Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
  • You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,
  • Will never do him good. [c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]
  • The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, James 5:11:]
  • Lord. VVHen thou ſhalt viſit me vvith a ſharp diſeaſe, I fear I ſhall be impatient. For I am Cholerick by my Nature, and tender by my Temper, and have not been acquainted vvith Sickneſſe all my life time. [1645, Thomas Fuller, “Personall Meditations”, in Good Thoughts in Bad Times, […], Exeter, Devon: […] Thomas Hunt, →OCLC, section II, page 3:]
  • I first had a girlfriend at the tender age of seven.
  • And you of tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by. [1970, Graham Nash, “Teach Your Children”:]
  • The court later expressly adopted the tender years doctrine, which states that a child is incapable of contributory negligence if he is less than seven years old[…]. [2001 October 15, Appeals Court of Illinios (Second District) in Appelhans v. McFall]
  • tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
  • The lesser griefs that may be said,
  • ⁠That breathe a thousand tender vows,
  • ⁠Are but as servants in a house
  • Where lies the master newly dead; […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 33:]
  • a tender subject
  • Things that are tender and unpleasing. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Cunning”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
  • I love Valentine,
  • Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! [c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:]
  • tender of property [1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:]
  • The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion. [a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies:]

Adjectives inflected like tender

sallow, smooth, slight, sleigh, sordid, somber, shweet, shrill, shrewd, yellow, yaller, hard knock, DRY, Greek, cut short, unquiet, unclean, indiscreet, chipper, straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English tender, tendere, from Anglo-Norman tender, Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum (“soft, delicate”). See: Latin Adjectives 'tener'.

Verbs referencing "tender"

Spanish Adjectives tierno, Galician Adjectives tenro.