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| Main Entry: | tender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fragile, soft |
| Synonyms: | breakable, dainty, delicate, effete, feeble, frail, supple, weak |
| Antonyms: | hard, rough, tough |
| Main Entry: | tender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | callow, childish, childlike, green*, immature, impressionable, new, raw*, rookie*, sensitive, unripe, vernal, vulnerable, youthful, wet behind the ears |
| Antonyms: | experienced, mature, older |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affectionate, loving |
| Synonyms: | amorous, benevolent, charitable, compassionate, considerate, demonstrative, emotional, evocative, fond, forgiving, gentle, humane, kind, lenient, merciful, mild, moving, mushy*, poignant, responsive, romantic, sensitive, sentimental, soft, softhearted, solicitous, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, ticklish, tolerant, touching, touchy, warm, warmhearted, yielding, all heart, bleeding-heart, caring, commiserative, lovey-dovey |
| Antonyms: | callous, uncaring, unfeeling, unloving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, sore |
| Synonyms: | acute, delicate, inflamed, irritated, raw, sensitive, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, aching, bruised, hypersensitive, oversensitive, smarting |
| Antonyms: | healthy, ok, unpained |
| Main Entry: | affectionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having or showing fondness |
| Synonyms: | dear, devoted, doting, fond, friendly, kind, loving, mushy*, partial, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, all over, attached, caring, crazy over, huggy, lovey-dovey, nutty about, soft on |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, cold, cool, disliking, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affectionate, desirous |
| Synonyms: | amorous, aphrodisiac, ardent, devoted, doting, erotic, fervent, fond, languishing, lovesick, loving, passionate, rapturous, romantic, sentimental, tender, yearning, admiring, attracted, wooing |
| Antonyms: | hateful, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | amorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loving, affectionate |
| Synonyms: | amative, amatory, aphrodisiac, ardent, doting, enamored, erotic, fond, horny*, hot, hot and heavy, impassioned, infatuated, lovesick, lustful, passionate, romantic, sexy, tender, attached, boy crazy, girl crazy, have a crush on, in love, lovey dovey, sweet for, sweet on, turned on |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, frigid, hateful, indifferent, unfriendly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compassionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having tender feelings |
| Synonyms: | benevolent, bleeding heart*, charitable, forbearing, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, merciful, piteous, responsive, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted, all heart, being big, commiserative, going easy on, living with, old softie, pitying, soft shell |
| Antonyms: | cruel, hard, harsh, hateful, indifferent, mean, merciless, tyrannous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | considerate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectful of others |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, amiable, attentive, benevolent, big, charitable, chivalrous, circumspect, compassionate, complaisant, concerned, cool, discreet, forbearing, generous, kind, kindly, magnanimous, mellow, mindful, obliging, patient, polite, solicitous, sympathetic, tactful, tender, thoughtful, unselfish, warmhearted, like a sport |
| Antonyms: | disrespectful, impatient, inattentive, inconsiderate, mean, scornful, selfish, thoughtless, unfeeling, unmindful |
| Main Entry: | cordial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, sociable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, agreeable, amicable, cheerful, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial, glowing, gracious, happy, heartfelt, hearty, invigorating, jovial, mellow, neighborly, palsy-walsy*, polite, responsive, sincere, social, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, buddy-buddy*, clubby, heart-to-heart, red-carpet, welcoming |
| Antonyms: | aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent, inhospitable, unfriendly, unpleasant, unsociable, uncordial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emotional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrative about feelings |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, disturbed, ecstatic, enthusiastic, excitable, exciting, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, fickle, fiery, heartwarming, heated, histrionic, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, irrational, moving, nervous, overwrought, passionate, pathetic, poignant, responsive, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, spontaneous, stirring, susceptible, temperamental, tender, thrilling, touching, warm, zealous, emotive, falling apart, hot-blooded, roused, stirred, tear-jerking |
| Notes: | emotional means 'affected by an emotion' while emotive means 'drawing out or evoking emotion' |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
| Synonyms: | alive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, showy, significant, silver-tongued*, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm, allusive, pictorial, revelatory |
| Antonyms: | expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | farmer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who produces crops, raises animals |
| Synonyms: | agriculturist, clodhopper*, gardener, grower, laborer, peasant, rancher, reaper, tender, agriculturalist, agronomist, breeder, cob, country person, cropper, cultivator, feeder, gleaner, grazer, harvester, hired hand, homesteader, horticulturist, planter, plower, producer, sharecropper, sower, tiller, villein |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | baggy, fat |
| Synonyms: | drooping, enervated, flaccid, floppy*, hanging, lax, limp, loose, pendulous, rusty, shapeless, slack, sloppy, soft, tender, unfit, yielding, flexuous, gone to seed, irresilient, out of condition, out of shape, sagging, toneless |
| Antonyms: | firm, lean, slim, taut, thin, tight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | have a liking or taste for |
| Synonyms: | addicted, affectionate, amorous, devoted, doting, enamored, indulgent, loving, mushy*, partial, predisposed, responsive, romantic, sentimental, sympathetic, tender, warm, adoring, attached, caring, keen on, lovesome, lovey-dovey, silly over |
| Antonyms: | hostile, hating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
| Synonyms: | brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fragile, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wishy-washy*, wispy, fracturable, frangible, shatterable, shattery, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | firm, strong, unbreakable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | friendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimate, companionable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, amiable, amicable, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, chummy*, civil, close, conciliatory, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, attached, buddy-buddy*, clubby, comradely, confiding, on good terms, welcoming, well-disposed* |
| Antonyms: | aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, unfriendly, unsociable, uncompanionable, unreceptive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, giving |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, affable, amiable, amicable, approachable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, big-hearted, bland, charitable, chivalrous, civil, compassionate, complaisant, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, courtly, easy, forthcoming, friendly, gallant, genial, good-natured, hospitable, indulgent, lenient, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, pleasing, polite, sociable, stately, suave, tender, unctuous, urbane, well-mannered, benignant, bonhomous, good-hearted |
| Antonyms: | discourteous, hateful, mean, nasty, rude, sarcastic, severe, ungracious, unkind, vulgar, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | humane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, compassionate |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, altruistic, amiable, approachable, benevolent, benign, broad-minded, charitable, clement, considerate, cordial, democratic, forbearing, forgiving, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, helpful, human, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, liberal, magnanimous, merciful, mild, natural, obliging, open-minded, philanthropic, righteous, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, unselfish, warmhearted, benignant, pitying |
| Antonyms: | cruel, fierce, merciless, uncivilized, unkind, unsympathetic, violent, inhumane, uncompassionate |
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally injured |
| Synonyms: | aggrieved, burned, cut, damaged, distressed, disturbed, harmed, hit, impaired, indignant, miffed, mutilated, offended, pained, put away, rueful, sad, shot, sore, stricken, struck, suffering, tender, unhappy, wounded, aching, agonized, all torn up, battered, bleeding, bruised, buffeted, busted up, contused, crushed, disfigured, grazed, in pain, lacerated, marred, mauled, nicked, piqued, resentful, scarred, scraped, scratched, shook, tortured, umbrageous, warped |
| Antonyms: | healthy, pleased, well, comforted, cured, healed, ok, remedied |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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