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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

kind or sympathetic, able to empathize or feel for others;

e.g. She never thought herself tenderhearted until she saw him nurse the kitten back to health.

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Similar Words

Affectionate

Approachable

Beneficent

Benevolent

Benignant

Caring

Compassionate

Devoted

Fatherly

Fond

Forgiving

Good-hearted

Humane

Kind

Kindhearted

Kindly

Knit

Lenient

Lovesick

Loving

Merciful

Pitying

Selfless

Softhearted

Sympathetic

Tender

Warmhearted

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Opposite Words

Aloof

Antisocial

Bad

Barbarous

Beastly

Bestial

Bitchy

Bloodthirsty

Bloody

Bloody-minded

Brutal

Brute

Brutish

Callous

Catty

Claw

Cold

Cold-blooded

Cold-eyed

Cool

Cruel

Deprecating

Despiteful

Detached

Disaffected

Distant

Draconian

Dry

Feral

Fiendish

Frigid

Frosty

Grim

Hard

Hard-hearted

Harsh

Hateful

Heartless

Heavy-handed

Homicidal

Impenitent

Inconsiderate

Indifferent

Inhuman

Insensate

Insensitive

Malevolent

Malicious

Malign

Malignant

Mean

Mean-spirited

Merciless

Murderous

Nasty

Obdurate

Pitiless

Remorseless

Remote

Reserved

Revengeful

Ruthless

Sadistic

Sanguinary

Sanguine

Savage

Severe

Shameless

Sledgehammer

Soulless

Spiteful

Standoffish

Stern

Subhuman

Swinish

Thoughtless

Tooth

Tough

Unashamed

Unbending

Uncaring

Uncharitable

Unconcerned

Unfeeling

Unfriendly

Uninvolved

Unkindly

Unloving

Unregenerate

Unrepentant

Unromantic

Unsparing

Unsympathetic

Unthinking

Vengeful

Vicious

Vindictive

Virulent

Wanton

Worse

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Related Words

Affable

Altruistic

Amatory

Amicable

Amorous

Ardent

Attentive

Benign

Bosom

Brotherly

Buddy-buddy

Caring

Charitable

Chummy

Clement

Close

Companionable

Compassionate

Considerate

Cordial

Empathetic

Empathic

Enamored

Erotic

Especial

Familiar

Fatherly

Fervent

Forgiving

Friendly

Generous

Gentle

Good

Good-natured

Good-tempered

Gracious

Greathearted

Hearty

Humane

Humanitarian

Impassioned

Infatuated

Inseparable

Intimate

Inward

Kind

Lenient

Liberal

Lovesick

Lovey-dovey

Magnanimous

Merciful

Mild

Motherly

Munificent

Mushy

Near

Neighborly

Nice

Noble

Openhearted

Palsy

Palsy-walsy

Passionate

Patient

Philanthropic

Pitying

Pleasant

Romantic

Sappy

Selfless

Sentimental

Sisterly

Soft

Solicitous

Sweet

Sympathetic

Thick

Thoughtful

Tight

Tolerant

Understanding

Unselfish

Unsparing

Warmhearted

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