tender
Sensitive or painful to the touch.
Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
Soft and easily chewed.
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
Young and inexperienced.
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
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