Word Meanings - TENDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes

Additional info about word: TENDER

A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TENDER)

• Bland
• Soft
• mild
• gentle
• complaisant
• courteous
• affable
• gracious
• tender
• benign
• Brotherly
• Fraternal
• kind
• affectionate
• Feminine
• Delicate
• womanly
• modest
• soft
• Gentle
• Courteous
• polite
• highbred
• bland
• tame
• docile
• amiable
• meek
• placid
• Gracious
• Affable
• benignant
• civil
• condescending
• merciful
• friendly
• beneficent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TENDER)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to TENDER)

• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• FRATERNAL
  Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv. An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war. Milton. Fraternal love and friendship. Addison.
• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• FEMININE
  1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. Macaulay. 2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex;
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• AMIABLE
  friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious;
• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• BENEFICENTLY
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• MERCIFUL
  1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.