Tending Synonyms and Antonyms

Inclined toward
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. apt to
  2. leaning
  3. disposed to
  4. predisposed to
  5. bent-on
  6. likely to
  7. apt
  8. prone-to
  9. liable to
  10. verging on
  11. working toward
  12. disposed
  13. given
  14. minded
Care for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. minding
  2. attending
Antonyms:
  1. neglecting
  2. ignoring
  3. abandoning
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. running
  2. favoring
  3. trending
  4. leaning
  5. directing
  6. squinting
  7. pointing
  8. slanting
  9. inclining
  10. leading
  11. conducing
The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. care
  2. attention
  3. aid
Giving attention to
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. caring for
  2. managing
  3. directing
  4. supervising
  5. administering
  6. ministering to
  7. serving
  8. nursing
  9. aiding
  10. attending
  11. playing wet-nurse to
  12. babying
Antonyms:
  1. omitting
  2. neglecting
  3. avoiding

Tending Sentence Examples

  • He spent every evening tending his farm, as he called it.

  • In cold weather it was no little amusement to bake several small loaves of this in succession, tending and turning them as carefully as an Egyptian his hatching eggs.

  • She didn't mind tending the team.

  • She was tending the mules when she saw a rider on top of a sand dune.

  • After his master's death, in the third period of his own life, and during his connexion with Alexander, but before the final construction of his philosophy into a system, he was tending to write more and more in the didactic style; to separate from dialectic, not only metaphysics, but also politics, rhetoric and poetry; to admit by the side of philosophy the arts of persuasive language; to think it part of their legitimate work to rouse the passions; and in all these ways to depart from the ascetic rigidity of the philosophy of Plato, so as to prepare for the tolerant spirit of his own, and especially for his ethical doctrine that virtue consists not in suppressing but in moderating almost all human passions.

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