Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Verb

Adjective

Adverb

The word "tender" can be used as noun, adjective, verb, adjective and adverb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

tough

Derived Terms

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 tender loco tender locomotive tender loving care tender offer tender porcelain tender something out tender years doctrine tender-first tender-handed tenderable tenderfoot tenderhearted tenderise tenderize tenderly tenderman tenderminded tenderness tenderoni water tender

Derived From

tend

Context

formal legal nautical plant rail transport

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

advise alter assistant boat car change gift give help helper medium of exchange modify monetary system offer offer offering person present proffer propose railcar railroad car railway car ship suggest supporter

Type Of (IsA)

boat car medium of exchange ship

Manner Of

change give offer

Related Terms

legal tender put out for tender put out to tender

Related Terms

auction base boat check cheque credit card delicate edible feel flight fond fondly gentle give inexperienced legal tender loving means mobile muscle naval offer pain pathetic payment pectoralis minor poultry put out for tender put out to tender railroad sales sensible ship shore soft sweet tends weak weaken young

Similar Terms

chewable chewable comestible crisp crispy crispy cuttable delicate delicate eatable edible flakey flakey flaky immature loving painful protective protective sentimental sentimental soft tenderised tenderised tenderized unstable weak young young

Synonym Network

affectionate attendant bid cranky dinghy nesh offer sensitive

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