Passion vs. Tender

Strong or powerful emotion

Easily crushed or bruised; fragile

A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy

Easily chewed or cut

A state of strong sexual desire or love

Young and vulnerable

The object of such desire or love

Frail; delicate.

Boundless enthusiasm

Sensitive to frost or severe cold; not hardy

The object of such enthusiasm

Easily hurt; sensitive

An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger

Painful; sore

The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.

Considerate and protective; solicitous

A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.

Characterized by or expressing gentle emotions; loving

Martyrdom

Given to sympathy or sentimentality; soft

A true desire sustained or prolonged.

(Nautical) Likely to heel easily under sail; crank.

Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.

To make tender.

Fervor, determination.

To offer formally

An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

(Law) To offer (payment or performance) pursuant to an obligation.

Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.

A strip of meat, usually chicken, often breaded, deep-fried, and served with a sauce.

The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.

(Law) An offer to pay the amount due under a debt or obligation.

A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.

A written offer to contract goods or services at a specified cost or rate; a bid.

(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.

Something, especially money, offered in payment.

(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition

One who tends something

(obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

(Nautical) A vessel attendant on other vessels, especially one that ferries supplies between ship and shore.

(obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.

A railroad car attached to the rear of a locomotive and designed to carry fuel and water.

(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

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

(transitive) To give a passionate character to.

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.

The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.

Young and inexperienced.

Disorder of the mind; madness.

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

Passion week. See Passion week, below.

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

To give a passionate character to.

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

To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Strong feeling or emotion

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

Intense passion or emotion

(obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.

Something that is desired intensely;

The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

(obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.

A feeling of strong sexual desire

(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

Any object of warm affection or devotion;

(nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.

The suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion

(nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.

Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.

A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.

(legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something.

Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

Tenderly

To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

(archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

To work on a tender.

(formal) To offer, to give.

To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.

Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.

The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.

Regard; care; kind concern.

To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

To offer in words; to present for acceptance.

To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

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

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

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

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

Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; - with of.

Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

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

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.

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

Something used as an official medium of payment

Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

A formal proposal to buy at a specified price

Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

A boat for communication between ship and shore

Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

Offer or present for acceptance

Propose a payment;

Make a tender of; in legal settlements

Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer;

Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality;

Hurting;

Susceptible to physical or emotional injury;

Having or displaying warmth or affection;

Easy to cut or chew;

Physically untoughened;

(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition;