tender-heartedly
In a caring way
In a manner showing gentle compassion or emotional sensitivity toward others.
Someone who acts tender-heartedly responds with sympathy to suffering or vulnerability: She tender-heartedly took in every stray cat in the neighborhood.
The word suggests softness of feeling rather than toughness or indifference.
Warmly, with goodwill
- mercifullyWith compassion or relief
- benevolentlyIn a kindhearted manner
- charitablyIn a giving manner
- sympatheticallyWith shared feeling
humanely · forgivingly · generously · graciously · altruistically · magnanimously · leniently · indulgently
With little volume
- delicatelyIn a careful, subtle manner
- mildlyIn a gentle way
- soothinglyIn a calming way
- quietlyWithout making noise
calmly · peacefully · serenely · placidly · meekly · docilely · tamely · unassumingly
Regarding inner feelings
- sentimentallyWith excessive tender emotion
- touchinglyIn an emotionally affecting way
- movinglyIn an affecting way
- feelinglyWith evident emotion
poignantly · wistfully · tearfully · misty-eyed · vulnerably · impressionably · open-heartedly · receptively
kindly
Warmly, with goodwill
- mercifullyWith compassion or relief
- benevolentlyIn a kindhearted manner
- charitablyIn a giving manner
sympathetically · humanely · forgivingly · generously · graciously · altruistically · magnanimously · leniently · indulgently · clemently
softly
With little volume
- delicatelyIn a careful, subtle manner
- mildlyIn a gentle way
- soothinglyIn a calming way
quietly · calmly · peacefully · serenely · placidly · meekly · docilely · tamely · unassumingly · humbly
emotionally
Regarding inner feelings
- sentimentallyWith excessive tender emotion
- touchinglyIn an emotionally affecting way
- movinglyIn an affecting way
feelingly · poignantly · wistfully · tearfully · misty-eyed · vulnerably · impressionably · open-heartedly · receptively · responsively
tender-heartedlycallously
Without regard for others
cruelly · heartlessly · cold-heartedly · mercilessly · ruthlessly
tender-heartedlyhard-heartedly
Without pity or feeling
cold-heartedly · stonily · steelily · flintily · icily
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