tenderhearted

/ ˌtɛndəˈhɑːtɪd /

adjective

1. having a compassionate, kindly, or sensitive disposition

Other Word Forms

• tenderheartedly adverb
• tenderheartedness noun

Example Sentences

Both are essentially tenderhearted, which is perhaps not the most practical quality for their professions, but necessary for the story — we need to like them.

From Los Angeles Times

“The show wouldn’t work if Jeff wasn’t playing Joel because he really is so funny and sly and so tenderhearted and heartbreaking and just everything you want to be,” she says in a Zoom interview.

From Los Angeles Times

This is a quirky, small-scale, quietly reflective work that’s as tenderhearted as it is spryly comic and as poignant as it is ultimately uplifting.

From Los Angeles Times

The eight-episode series, the latest in Netflix’s Sandman Universe, features tenderhearted queerness and queer characters in various stages of coming out and coming of age.

From Los Angeles Times

Max was the tenderhearted one who got upset at so much as a caterpillar accidentally crushed underfoot, or a dead lightning bug caught in the grille of his family’s limousine.

From Literature