tender loving care

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   considerate and solicitous care

   “young children need lots of TLC”

   SynonymsTLC

   Broadercare

Questions about tender loving care

What does tender loving care mean?

tender loving care means "considerate and solicitous care".

What is another word for tender loving care?

Close synonyms include TLC. 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 tender loving care a common word?

tender loving care is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.