tended to

1. 1.

   having a caretaker or other watcher

   Synonymsattended

   Similarcared-for

Questions about tended to

What does tended to mean?

tended to means "having a caretaker or other watcher".

What is another word for tended to?

Close synonyms include attended. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tended to a common word?

tended to is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.