Definitions For Tender

noun

  • Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
  • A boat for communication between ship and shore
  • Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
  • A formal proposal to buy at a specified price
  • Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
  • Something that can be used as an official medium of payment

verb

  • Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
  • Make a tender of; in legal settlements
  • Offer or present for acceptance
  • Propose a payment

adjective

  • (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
  • Having or displaying warmth or affection
  • Young and immature
  • Hurting
  • (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

adjective

  • Easy to cut or chew
  • Physically untoughened
  • Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

Is Tender a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
7
Words with Friends
8

The word Tender is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Tender in a Sentence

  • He gave her a tender look.
  • She was tender and loving with her new child.
  • Cook the pasta until it is just tender.

Synonyms for Tender

Antonyms for Tender

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