Tender

//ˈtɛn.dɚ//

Synonyms for "tender" (477 found)

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Closest matches (96)

Strong matches (143)

cranky creamy crispy cruiser cupbearer curious currency dainty dangerous day coach deal deal out decent demonstrative devoted dewy difficult diner dining car dish out

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Adjective(2 words)

cranky fond

Noun(3 words)

cutter dinghy legal tender

Adjective(6 words)

effete enervated hearty hurt hurty languid

Related words (238)

lovesick lovesome loving luggage van mail car mail van maternal maudlin mawkish mellow mellowy melting merciful mete mete out mild mindful minor moderate mollified

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money mother-of-pearl moving nacreous naive nervous nesh new new-fledged nice nominate nonresistive nonrigid office boy office girl opalescent orderly overrefined oversensible oversensitive overtender overture page painful palace car pale parental parlor car passenger car passible passionate pastel paternal patient patinaed pay pay by installments pay on payment pearly pitying poignant pose pour prefer prepay present presentation prickly profess proffer proposal propose proposition protective provocative pullman pullman car purpose put forward put up quiet railway car rain rankling raw receptive recompense red reefer refined refrigerator car regardful remit remunerate render responsive reward ripening romantic roomette ruthful sad salary sappy satisfy sea-kindly seaworthy semigloss sensible serve set before shaky shell out ship shower sickly simple skiff skittish sleeper slip smarting smoker smoking car snow snug sober soft soft as putty soft-colored soft-hued softened softhearted solicitous somber soothing sore soul-stirring specie squire steward stewardess stiff stirring stockcar subdued submission submissive submit subtle suggest supersensitive susceptible sweet sympathetic sympathizing tactful tank tanker tenderhearted tenderised tetchy thin skinned thin-skinned thoughtful ticklish tingling tolerant touching touchy trainbearer tricky troublesome truck turn unadult underage understanding undeveloped unfledged unformed uninitiated unlicked unmellowed unripe unseasoned unsound unstable untrained unwell usher uxorious van vehicle venture vernal vessel virginal vouchsafe vulnerable waggon wagon warm warm-hearted warmhearted waterproof watertight weak weatherly whisper-soft wifely yeoman yield yielding youthful

Adjective(6 words)

lovesome raw sensitive sore tippy untoughened

Adjective(10 words)

low nesh pained painfilled piteous smartful suffering toothless wasted weedy

Noun(4 words)

pinnace ship's boat stamp supply ship

Verb(2 words)

tenderise tenderize

Related word relations

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11 relation types

More general

26 entries

advise alter assistant boat car change gift give help helper medium of exchange modify monetary system offer offering

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Antonyms

1 entries

tough

Synonyms

8 entries

affectionate attendant bid cranky dinghy nesh offer sensitive

Related terms

3 entries

legal tender put out for tender put out to tender

derived

36 entries

TLC airship tender balloon tender bartender brake tender budtender buoy tender chicken tender e-tender fork-tender frost-tender seaplane tender split tender sub tender tender cab tender engine

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derived from

1 entries

tend

has context

5 entries

formal legal nautical plant rail transport

is a

4 entries

boat car medium of exchange ship

manner of

3 entries

change give offer

related to

40 entries

auction base boat check cheque credit card delicate edible feel flight fond fondly gentle give inexperienced legal tender

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similar

29 entries

chewable comestible crisp crispy cuttable delicate eatable edible flakey flaky immature loving

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Translations

257 translations across 52 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἁπαλός adj (easy damaged, delicate)

Belarusian

4 entries

даліка́тны adj (soft and easily chewed)
даліка́тны adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
ласка́вы adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
не́жны adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Bulgarian

4 entries

деликатен adj (easy damaged, delicate)
крехък adj (easy damaged, delicate)
ла́скав adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
мек adj (soft and easily chewed)

Burmese

1 entries

တင်ဒါ verb (formal: to offer, give)

Catalan

3 entries

tendre adj (sensitive or painful)
tendre adj (soft and easily chewed)
tendre adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

嫩 adj (soft and easily chewed)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

嫩 adj (soft and easily chewed)
溫柔 /温柔 adj (sensitive or painful)
精緻 /精致 adj (easy damaged, delicate)

Czech

4 entries

choulostivý adj (easy damaged, delicate)
citlivý adj (sensitive or painful)
citlivý adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
jemný adj (soft and easily chewed)

Danish

4 entries

mør adj (soft and easily chewed)
øm adj (sensitive or painful)
øm adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
betalingsmiddel noun (means of payment)

Dutch

4 entries

gevoelig adj (sensitive or painful)
lief adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
mals adj (soft and easily chewed)
zacht adj (soft and easily chewed)

Esperanto

2 entries

mola adj (soft and easily chewed)
tenera adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Estonian

1 entries

hell adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Finnish

4 entries

aristava adj (sensitive or painful)
arka adj (sensitive or painful)
hellä adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
murea adj (soft and easily chewed)

French

4 entries

sensible adj (sensitive or painful)
tendre adj (sensitive or painful)
tendre adj (soft and easily chewed)
tendre adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Friulian

1 entries

tenar adj (soft and easily chewed)

Galician

4 entries

agarimoso adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
dondio adj (soft and easily chewed)
madioso adj (soft and easily chewed)
melosiño adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Georgian

2 entries

ტენდერი noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)
შეთავაზება noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)

German

4 entries

empfindlich adj (sensitive or painful)
lieb adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
liebevoll adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
nachgiebig adj (soft and easily chewed)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌸𐌻𐌰𐌵𐌿𐍃 adj (easy damaged, delicate)

Hindi

2 entries

निविदा noun (means of payment)
निविदा noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)

Hungarian

2 entries

gyenge adj (soft and easily chewed)
gyengéd adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Indonesian

1 entries

tender noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)

Ingrian

2 entries

hellä adj (sensitive or painful)
herkkä adj (easy damaged, delicate)

Irish

4 entries

armacach adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
frithir adj (sensitive or painful)
grámhar adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
muirneach adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Italian

4 entries

carino adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
delicato adj (sensitive or painful)
dolce adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
morbido adj (soft and easily chewed)

Japanese

4 entries

優しい adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
柔らかい adj (soft and easily chewed)
過敏 adj (sensitive or painful)
炭水車 noun (fuel-carrying railroad car)

Kituba

1 entries

petepete adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Latin

3 entries

tener adj (sensitive or painful)
tener adj (easy damaged, delicate)
tener adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Luxembourgish

3 entries

zaart adj (sensitive or painful)
zaart adj (soft and easily chewed)
zaart adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Macedonian

2 entries

благ adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
нежен adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Malay

2 entries

sebut harga noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)
tender noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)

Manchu

1 entries

ᠨᡝᠮᡝᠶᡝᠨ adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Māori

4 entries

mateoha adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
ngaore adj (soft and easily chewed)
pāwera adj (sensitive or painful)
tāngohengohe adj (sensitive or painful)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

mør adj (soft and easily chewed)
anbud noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)
betalingsmiddel noun (means of payment)
tilbud noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

mør adj (soft and easily chewed)
møyr adj (soft and easily chewed)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

نازك adj (easy damaged, delicate)

Persian

1 entries

ترد adj (soft and easily chewed)

Polish

4 entries

czuły adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
delikatny adj (soft and easily chewed)
pieszczotliwy adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
oferta f przetargowa noun (law: an offer to buy or sell something)

Portuguese

4 entries

macio adj (soft and easily chewed)
tenro adj (soft and easily chewed)
terno adj (sensitive or painful)
terno adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Romanian

4 entries

dulce adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
fraged adj (soft and easily chewed)
gentil adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
iubit adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Russian

4 entries

делика́тный adj (easy damaged, delicate)
ла́сковый adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
не́жный adj (sensitive or painful)
не́жный adj (soft and easily chewed)

Sanskrit

2 entries

कोमल adj (easy damaged, delicate)
मृदु adj (easy damaged, delicate)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

njȅžan adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
nȅžan adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
не̏жан adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
ње̏жан adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Slovak

1 entries

nežný adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Slovene

2 entries

blȃg adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
nežen adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Spanish

4 entries

cariñoso adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
dolorido adj (sensitive or painful)
tierno adj (sensitive or painful)
tierno adj (soft and easily chewed)

Swedish

4 entries

ljuv adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
mör adj (soft and easily chewed)
öm adj (sensitive or painful)
öm adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Tibetan

1 entries

འཇམ་པོ adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Tocharian B

1 entries

lalaṃṣke adj (easy damaged, delicate)

Turkish

4 entries

gevrek adj (soft and easily chewed)
hassas adj (easy damaged, delicate)
kıtır adj (soft and easily chewed)
müşfik adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Ukrainian

4 entries

деліка́тний adj (soft and easily chewed)
ласка́вий adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)
ні́жний adj (soft and easily chewed)
ні́жний adj (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Yakut

1 entries

нарын adj (sensitive or painful)

Sample sentences

58 total sentences available.

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This beef is tender.

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This beef is very nice and tender.

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The petals of this rose are very tender.

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The rough material hurt the child's tender skin.

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