tender

tender is a 6-letter English word with 38 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 38 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
2. noun. A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
3. noun. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
4. transitive verb. To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
5. transitive verb. To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
6. noun. An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
7. noun. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
8. noun. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
9. superlative. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
10. superlative. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
11. superlative. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
12. superlative. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
13. superlative. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
14. superlative. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
15. superlative. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
16. superlative. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
17. superlative. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
18. superlative. Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
19. noun. Regard; care; kind concern.
20. transitive verb. To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
21. noun. ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
22. noun. a boat for communication between ship and shore

    Synonyms: cutter, pinnace

23. noun. car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
24. noun. a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

    Synonyms: bid

25. noun. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

    Synonyms: attendant, attender

26. noun. something that can be used as an official medium of payment

    Synonyms: stamp

27. verb. make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

    "tenderize meat"

    Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize

28. verb. make a tender of; in legal settlements
29. verb. offer or present for acceptance
30. verb. propose a payment

    "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting"

    Synonyms: bid, offer

31. adjective. (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

    "tender green shoots"

32. adjective. having or displaying warmth or affection

    "affectionate children"

    "a fond embrace"

    Synonyms: affectionate, fond, lovesome, warm

33. adjective. young and immature

    "at a tender age"

34. adjective. hurting

    "the tender spot on his jaw"

    Synonyms: raw, sensitive, sore

35. adjective. (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

    Synonyms: crank, cranky, tippy

36. adjective. easy to cut or chew

    "tender beef"

37. adjective. physically untoughened

    "tender feet"

    Synonyms: untoughened

38. adjective. given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

    "a tender heart"

    "a tender smile"

Synonyms

cutter, pinnace, bid, attendant, attender, stamp, tenderise, tenderize, offer, affectionate, fond, lovesome, warm, raw, sensitive, sore, crank, cranky, tippy, untoughened

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tender:

denter, rented, tendre, terned

Common word forms

tenders, tendered, tenderer, tenderly, tenderest, tenderful, tendering, tenderise, tenderize, tenderable, tenderness

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