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What is the adjective for tendering?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs tend, tender, tenderize, tenderise and tendre which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tender
  1. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
  2. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
  3. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
  4. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
  5. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
  6. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
  7. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
  8. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
  9. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
  10. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
  11. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “All tender plants need to be kept in a frost-free greenhouse or in a cool place indoors.”
      “He has collected a wealth of happy memories since he joined the team at the tender age of 15.”
      “In an act of self-sacrifice, she grasps the sword of the executioner in an attempt, by wounding herself, to save from his cruel hands the tender young child she holds to her breast.”
tendentious
  1. Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
  2. Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “You gentlemen will need to decide quickly before I make a tendentious decision.”
      “The scriptwriter must fashion this already tendentious material into watchable drama.”
      “Finlay's prose, some of it gathered here, is often rewarding theologically in spite of its tendentious Thomism.”
tenderer
tendersome
  1. Characterised or marked by tenderness
  2. Examples:
    1. “This ain't the safest place to sit'n'think, Zachry, said Meronym, so tendersome that fin'ly my tears oozed out.”
tendential
  1. Of or relating to a tendency.
tenderable
  1. Capable of being tendered.
tendre
  1. Obsolete form of tender.
tenderized
tenderest
  1. superlative form of tender: most tender
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The choicest and strongest tea is made of the topmost and tenderest buds of the plant.”
      “This bug confines itself neither to the edges of vineyards, nor to the tenderest shoots.”
      “In recent years the human-rights record of the regime in Myanmar has been the tenderest of these sore spots.”
tended
tending
tendered
tendering
tenderizing
tenderised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of tenderise
  2. Synonyms:
tenderising
tendred
  1. simple past tense and past participle of tendre
tendring
  1. present participle of tendre
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