TENDEREST

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

Example: "Tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit"

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

(of food) soft and easily chewed.

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

Example: "Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children."

Young and inexperienced.

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

Example: "Tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain"

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

Example: "A tender subject"

Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.