What is "tenderer"

Tender \Ten"der\, a. [Compar. Tenderer; superl. Tenderest.] [F. tendre, L. tener; probably akin to tenuis thin. See Thin.]

1. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

   Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.
   --L'Estrange.

3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.

   The tender and delicate woman among you.
   --Deut. xxviii. 56.

4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.

   The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
   --James v. 11.

   I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.
   --Fuller.

5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

   I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
   --Shak.

6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. ``Tender of property.''
   --Burke.

   The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion.
   --Tillotson.

7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

   You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good.
   --Shak.

8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.

9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. ``Things that are tender and unpleasing.''
   --Bacon.

10. (Naut.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.

    Note: Tender is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed, tender-looking, tender-minded, tender-mouthed, and the like.

    Syn: Delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive; compassionate; kind; humane; merciful; pitiful.

a. (en-comparative of: tender) n. One who tenders (a bid, a contract, etc.).