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tender-minded
[ ten-der-mahyn-did ]
adjective
- compassionate and idealistic.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tender-minded1
First recorded in 1595–1605
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Example Sentences
He differentiated them as the "tough-minded," and the "tender-minded."
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The tender-minded notion of an absolute reality is, according to the radically tough-minded, framed on just this pattern.
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For some "tender-minded" and, to my thought, obscure, reason the subject is tabooed.
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Its lines are too refined, too pussy-foot, too pathetic, too tender-minded for that.
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These two systems are what you have to choose between if you turn to the tender-minded school.
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