tender-minded

adjective

Definition of tender-mindednext
as in sentimental

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tender-minded
  1. sentimental
  2. zealous
  3. optimistic
  4. moony
  5. messianic
Adjective
  • These channels, which come from all over the world, are like that, but without the sentimental backstories.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The sentimental montage began with a clip of Jenn, 26, crying while confronting her ex-fiancé Devin Strader at the After the Final Rose ceremony.
    Esther Kang, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of sentimental
Adjective
  • Fracking is not the bogeyman that has been pushed and misrepresented by zealous groups of anti-frackers.
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Shifting geopolitical realities has spurred a wholesale recalibration of Armenia’s foreign policy combined with a zealous effort to internationalize the economy to render the price of any future conflict intolerably high.
    Charlie Campbell / Yerevan, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of zealous
Adjective
  • Despite a bike bust in the years after the pandemic, both are optimistic about the industry’s future.
    Max Scheinblum, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Our data is optimistic, but the politics is uncertain.
    James Morton Turner, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2024
Definition of optimistic
Adjective
  • Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.
    Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
Definition of moony
Adjective
  • The complex is set to become an even more incendiary flashpoint: a growing far-right messianic movement, once on the fringes, is making its way into the mainstream with the aim of establishing a Jewish monopoly over the entire compound, conducting animal sacrifices there, and rebuilding the temple.
    Mairav Zonszein, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The Second Temple era ended after the Zealots took over with messianic visions and almost destroyed the Jewish people, almost destroyed the Jewish religion, which had to then reinvent itself.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of messianic
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tenderly

tender-minded

tenderness

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