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Fine or soft in touch or skill:
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- Fine or soft in touch or skill:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Marked by sensitivity of discrimination:
Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
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- Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
- Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
- Physically weak; frail; delicate
Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
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- Readily bent, folded, or manipulated; pliant:
- Able to bend and move easily and nimbly; lithe; limber
- Moving and bending with agility; limber:
Not fully grown or developed:
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- Not fully grown or developed:
- Silly or childish in behavior.
- Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity:
Of, like, or characteristic of a child
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- Of, like, or characteristic of a child
- Behaving immaturely.
- Marked by or indicating a lack of maturity; puerile:
Sympathetic, friendly, gentle, tenderhearted, generous, etc.
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- Sympathetic, friendly, gentle, tenderhearted, generous, etc.
- Agreeable or beneficial:
- Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
Recently made; fresh:
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- Recently made; fresh:
- (Informal) Uncomfortable because of danger or annoyance:
- Loving; passionate:
Alternative form of warm-hearted.
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- Alternative form of warm-hearted.
- Kind, sympathetic, friendly, loving, etc.
In agreement with one's tastes, mood, feelings, disposition, etc.; congenial
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- In agreement with one's tastes, mood, feelings, disposition, etc.; congenial
- Of, expressing, feeling, or resulting from sympathy:
- Relating to or being vibrations, especially musical tones, produced in one body by energy from a nearby vibrating body and having the same frequency as the vibration of the nearby body.
Expressing love
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- Expressing love
- Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
- Feeling love; affectionate.
(Archaic) Full of desire; eager:
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- (Archaic) Full of desire; eager:
- Showing great attention or concern to another:
- Expressing care or concern for another:
Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances:
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- Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances:
- Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.
Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
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- Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
- Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
- Physically weak; frail; delicate
Physically weak or delicate:
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- Physically weak or delicate:
- Easily broken, shattered, damaged, or destroyed; fragile; delicate
- Slender and delicate; not robust; weak
Requiring careful or tactful treatment:
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- Requiring careful or tactful treatment:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Marked by sensitivity of discrimination:
Changing or capable of changing position:
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- Changing or capable of changing position:
- (no comparative or superlative) That moves or move.
- Involving a motor vehicle in motion:
Pitifully unsuccessful, ineffective, etc.
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- Pitifully unsuccessful, ineffective, etc.
- Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
- Expressing, arousing, or intended to arouse pity, sorrow, sympathy, or compassion; pitiful
Emotionally touching; evoking pity, sympathy, etc.
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- Emotionally touching; evoking pity, sympathy, etc.
- Inspiring or capable of inspiring strong emotion; moving.
Requiring careful or tactful treatment:
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- Requiring careful or tactful treatment:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Marked by sensitivity of discrimination:
Delicately pretty or lovely
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- Delicately pretty or lovely
- Delicately beautiful or charming and usually small:
- Of or showing delicate and refined taste; fastidious
Easily offended; oversensitive; irritable
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- Easily offended; oversensitive; irritable
- Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.
- Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate:
Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned.
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- Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned.
- Extremely or excessively sensitive.
Highly or abnormally sensitive to a stimulus, especially to some allergen.
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- Highly or abnormally sensitive to a stimulus, especially to some allergen.
- Highly or excessively sensitive.
- Abnormally or excessively sensitive
Marked by or requiring great care and diligence:
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- Marked by or requiring great care and diligence:
- Requiring trouble and care; exacting and difficult
- Full of or giving pain:
To offer for acceptance; tender:
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- To offer for acceptance; tender:
- To offer (usually something intangible)
- A preliminary offering, specifically with regard to testimony or evidence, a preview of what will be said or shown. Also known as an offer of proof. A preliminary offering, specifically with regard to testimony or evidence, a preview of what will be said or shown. Also known as an offer of proof.
To attach to (a pathologic antigen, such as a virus or bacterium) in order to allow the antigen to be recognized and destroyed by T cells. Used of certain immune cells, such as macrophages.
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- To attach to (a pathologic antigen, such as a virus or bacterium) in order to allow the antigen to be recognized and destroyed by T cells. Used of certain immune cells, such as macrophages.
- To appear or be felt first during birth. Used of the part of the fetus that proceeds first through the birth canal.
- To give (a gift, donation, award, etc.) to a person, organization, etc.
To present to view:
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- To present to view:
- To introduce or present (a speaker, the subject of a toast, etc.)
- (Slang) To abandon a claim, fight, etc.; give in or give up
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Easily managed or handled; docile:
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- Easily managed or handled; docile:
- (Archaic) Noble; chivalrous:
- Not harsh or severe; mild and soft:
Not severe or acute:
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- Not severe or acute:
- Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force:
- Having a soft, pleasant taste or flavor; not strong, sour, bitter, biting, or sharp
Easily molded, cut, or worked:
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- Easily molded, cut, or worked:
- Not stern; lenient:
- Mild; balmy:
Not strict or severe, as in discipline or authority
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- Not strict or severe, as in discipline or authority
- Easily moved; tender.
- Gentle; kind; sympathetic.
Easily moved by another's distress; compassionate.
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- Easily moved by another's distress; compassionate.
- Easily moved to love
- Having a tender heart; quick to feel pity; sympathetic
An attempt or try
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- An attempt or try
- An invitation, especially one offering membership in a group or club.
- An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something:
An act demonstrating a willingness to enter into a contract in such a way that a reasonable person would recognize that acceptance of the terms will conclude in a binding agreement. See also acceptance.
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- An act demonstrating a willingness to enter into a contract in such a way that a reasonable person would recognize that acceptance of the terms will conclude in a binding agreement. See also acceptance.
- (Used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
- The act of offering:
An offer or proposal
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- An offer or proposal
That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.
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- That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.
- (Law) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
- An offer of marriage.
To be or become long, large, or comprehensive:
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- To be or become long, large, or comprehensive:
- To cause to move at full gallop. Used of a horse.
- To present; offer:
To present for approval or acceptance; proffer; tender
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- To present for approval or acceptance; proffer; tender
- To present an offering in worship or devotion.
- To present as an act of worship:
To offer (a play, for example) for public entertainment.
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- To offer (a play, for example) for public entertainment.
- To offer for consideration
- To offer for viewing or notice; exhibit; display; show
A preliminary offering, specifically with regard to testimony or evidence, a preview of what will be said or shown. Also known as an offer of proof. A preliminary offering, specifically with regard to testimony or evidence, a preview of what will be said or shown. Also known as an offer of proof.
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- A preliminary offering, specifically with regard to testimony or evidence, a preview of what will be said or shown. Also known as an offer of proof. A preliminary offering, specifically with regard to testimony or evidence, a preview of what will be said or shown. Also known as an offer of proof.
- To offer (usually something intangible)
- To offer for acceptance; tender:
To do charitable or helpful work without pay:
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- To do charitable or helpful work without pay:
- To give or offer to give voluntarily:
- To freely choose to enter or offer to enter into any service; enlist
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Synonym Study
- Warm and warmhearted suggest an interest or affection characterized by cordiality, generosity, etc. warm, or warmhearted, hospitality
- Sympathetic implies the ability or disposition to enter into another's mental state or emotions and thus to share sorrows, joys, desires, etc. a sympathetic interest in a colleague's career
- Compassionate is applied to one who is easily affected by another's troubles or pains and is quick to show pity or mercy a compassionate judge
- Tender implies a softness or gentleness in one's relations with others that is expressive of warm affection, concern, etc. a tender caress
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