tenderhearted
adjEtymology From tender + hearted.
1
Compassionate for another's distress.
- I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
2
Easily moved to love.
- Derived terms
- tenderheartedly, tenderheartedness