Definitions
1.adjectiveSensitive or painful to the touch.
2.adjectiveEasily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate."tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit"
3.adjectivePhysically weak; not able to endure hardship.
4.adjective(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
5.adjectiveSensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
6.adjectiveFond, loving, gentle, sweet."Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children."
7.adjectiveYoung and inexperienced.
8.adjectiveAdapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic."tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain"
9.adjectiveApt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate."a tender subject"
10.adjectiveHeeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
11.adjectiveExciting kind concern; dear; precious.
12.adjectiveCareful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
13.nounOne who tenders (a bid, a contract, etc.).