tender

/ˈtɛndər/

意味: 優しい、柔らかい

例文: Aki’s tender voice calmed Momo.
　　  アキの優しい声がモモを落ち着かせた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: tender care(優しいケア), tender meat(柔らかい肉), tender moment(心温まる瞬間)

定義: 優しい、柔らかい、または心のこもった様子を表す言葉です。人や動物に対して優しく接することや、肉や食べ物が柔らかくて食べやすいことを示します。また、感情的に心温まる瞬間や状況を指すこともあります。

tenderは約80,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: something that can be used as an official medium of payment
Noun: someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
Noun: a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
Noun: car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
Noun: a boat for communication between ship and shore
Noun: ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
Verb: offer or present for acceptance
Verb: propose a payment
Verb: make a tender of; in legal settlements
Verb: make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
Adjective: given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
Adjective: hurting
Adjective: young and immature
Adjective: having or displaying warmth or affection
Adjective: easy to cut or chew
Adjective: physically untoughened
Adjective: (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
Adjective: (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The steak was cooked to a tender perfection.(ステーキは柔らかく完璧に焼かれていた。)
She gave a tender smile to the child.(彼女は子供に優しい微笑みを向けた。)
Please submit your tender by the deadline tomorrow.(入札書は明日までに提出してください。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting
Verb: tenderize meat
Adjective: a tender heart
Adjective: a tender smile
Adjective: tender loving care
Adjective: tender memories
Adjective: a tender mother
Adjective: the tender spot on his jaw
Adjective: at a tender age
Adjective: affectionate children
Adjective: a fond embrace
Adjective: fond of his nephew
Adjective: a tender glance
Adjective: a warm embrace
Adjective: tender beef
Adjective: tender feet
Adjective: tender green shoots

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): affectionate, attendant, attender, bid, crank, cranky, cutter, fond, legal tender, lovesome, offer, pinnace, raw, sensitive, ship’s boat, sore, stamp, supply ship, tender, tenderise, tenderize, tippy, untoughened, warm

Antonyms(反意語): tough

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): assistant, boat, car, change, give, medium of exchange, offer, ship

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abandoned ship, accelerate, accomplice, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, aide, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, ark, arterialize, ash, assimilate, attendant, automatize, awaken, baggage car, barb, barbarize, barge, bat boy, bequeath, bestialize, better, bid, blind, blister, blockade-runner, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, bumboat, cabin car, calcify, camp, canal boat, capture, cargo ship, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, club car, coadjutor, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, contract offer, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, counteroffer, crack, cry, currency, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, dental assistant, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, deputy, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, donate, dope, draw, dresser, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, endow, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, event planner, excite, extend, exteriorize, facilitator, fatten, feminize, ferry, fertilize, fill, fireboat, fix, flagship, flatten, flocculate, flower girl, freeze, freight car, frenchify, full, gas-turbine ship, gelatinize, girl friday, give, give away, glamorize, glorify, gondola, grant, guard boat, guard’s van, gunboat, habituate, handcar, harmonize, harshen, hatchet man, heat, hospital ship, hue, hulk, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, icebreaker, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, instrument, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, junk, labor coach, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, lightship, liquefy, longboat, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, lugger, mackinaw, magnetize, mail car, mailboat, make, mannequin, mark, marriage proposal, masculinize, mechanize, militarize, mince, minelayer, minesweeper, mix, model, money, morph, motorboat, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, nuclear-powered ship, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, paraprofessional, passenger car, passenger ship, patent, peace offering, personalize, piggyback, pilot boat, pirate, plasticize, poison, polarize, police boat, politicize, port, powder monkey, professionalize, prompter, proof, proposition, prospectus, prostrate, punt, purify, put, radicalize, raffle, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relax, remodel, render, restore, revolutionize, reward, right, right-hand man, rights offering, ripen, river boat, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, school ship, scow, scramble, sea boat, secretary, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shipwreck, shorten, sidesman, simplify, sister ship, slave ship, slenderize, slip coach, small boat, small ship, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, special, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, steamboat, steamer, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, subordinate, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, surfboat, surrender, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tender offer, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, three-decker, tighten, tip, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transport ship, transpose, treasure ship, treat, troopship, tugboat, turn, turn back, twofer, uglify, unclutter, underboss, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, van, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, warship, water boy, weaken, weaponize, wet, whaler, whipper-in, widen, worsen, wreck

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): baggageman, batman, bellboy, bridesmaid, buyout bid, by-bid, caddie, checker, companion, courtier, cupbearer, equerry, escort, esquire, famulus, food stamp, gig, gillie, groomsman, lifeguard, linkboy, loader, matron of honor, orderly, outbid, overbid, page, racker, rocker, second, servitor, squire, steward, stretcher-bearer, subscribe, trainbearer, underbid, waker

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: affection, affectionateness, attend, bid, bidder, fondness, offer, rawness, sensitivity, soreness, tend, tender, tenderisation, tenderiser, tenderization, tenderize, tenderizer, tenderness, warmness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): er

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画): Frozen

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: joy, positive, trust