tender-minded
[ ten-der-mahyn-did ]
adjective
compassionate and idealistic.
Origin of tender-minded
1First recorded in 1595–1605
Words Nearby tender-minded
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How to use tender-minded in a sentence
He differentiated them as the "tough-minded," and the "tender-minded."
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology | C. G. JungThe tender-minded notion of an absolute reality is, according to the radically tough-minded, framed on just this pattern.
Pragmatism | William JamesFor some "tender-minded" and, to my thought, obscure, reason the subject is tabooed.
Bygone Beliefs | H. Stanley RedgroveIts lines are too refined, too pussy-foot, too pathetic, too tender-minded for that.
Idling in Italy | Joseph CollinsThese two systems are what you have to choose between if you turn to the tender-minded school.
Pragmatism | William James
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