tenderest

adjective

1. 1

   Sensitive or painful to the touch.

2. 2

   Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

   “tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit”

3. 3

   Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

4. 4

   (of food) Soft and easily chewed.

5. 5

   Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

6. 6

   Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

   “Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.”

7. 7

   Young and inexperienced.

8. 8

   Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

   “tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain”

9. 9

   Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

   “a tender subject”

10. 10

    Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

11. 11

    Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

12. 12

    Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.