tenderhearted

1. 1.

   easily moved to love

   Similarloving
2. 2.

   easily moved by another's distress

   “a noble tenderhearted creature who sympathizes with all the human race”

   Similarcompassionate

Questions about tenderhearted

What does tenderhearted mean?

tenderhearted means "easily moved to love". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tenderhearted?

tenderhearted has 5 syllables: ten-der-he-ar-ted. The stress falls on "he".

Is tenderhearted a common word?

tenderhearted 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.