tenderhearted

See also: tender-hearted

English

Etymology

From tender +‎ hearted.

Adjective

tenderhearted (comparative more tenderhearted, superlative most tenderhearted)

1. 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.

2. Easily moved to love.

Derived terms

• tenderheartedly
• tenderheartedness

Translations

compassionate

Bulgarian: състрадателен (bg) (sǎstradatelen), милостив (bg) (milostiv) Greek: Ancient: εὔσπλαγχνος (eúsplankhnos) Irish: maothchroíoch Latin: misericors (la) Polish: kochliwy (pl) Spanish: enamoradizo (es)