tendre

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

“tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit”

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

“Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.”

Young and inexperienced.

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

“tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain”

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

“a tender subject”

Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

To work on a tender.

To offer, to give.

“to tender one’s resignation”

To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

Tender feeling or fondness; affection.