tendre

1. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
2. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

   tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit

3. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
4. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
5. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
6. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

   Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.

7. Young and inexperienced.
8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

   tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain

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

   a tender subject

10. Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
11. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
12. Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

1. To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
2. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

verb

To work on a tender.

1. To offer, to give.

   to tender one’s resignation

2. To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

noun

Tender feeling or fondness; affection.