tenderhearted
adj
Elementary
1
Compassionate for another's distress.
“I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.”
“The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.”
2
Easily moved to love.
From tender + hearted.
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