tenderly

English

Etymology

tender +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.dɚ.li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.də.li/
• Hyphenation: ten‧der‧ly

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Adverb

tenderly (comparative more tenderly, superlative most tenderly)

1. In a tender manner; gently; sweetly.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     and the hour striking at which I was oblig'd to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of the necessity there was for parting

   • 2019, “Sinking”, performed by Clairo:

     Outside is getting colder
     Why does it feel like I'm older than I asked to be?
     But when you say my name
     It all falls away so tenderly

Translations

in a tender manner

• Bulgarian: нежно (bg) (nežno)
• Catalan: tendrament (ca)
• Esperanto: tenere (eo)
• Finnish: hellästi (fi)
• French: tendrement (fr)

  Old French: tendrement

• Galician: tenramente
• Italian: teneramente (it)
• Norman: tendrément (Jersey)
• Plautdietsch: behutsom
• Polish: czule (pl)
• Portuguese: tenramente
• Russian: не́жно (ru) (néžno), мя́гко (ru) (mjáxko)
• Spanish: tiernamente (es)
• Swedish: ömt (sv)

Anagrams

• tendrely