different between passionate vs tender

English

Etymology

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare (“to be affected with passion”); see passion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæ??n?t/, /?pæ??n?t/
• Hyphenation: pas?sion?ate

Adjective

passionate (comparative more passionate, superlative most passionate)

1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
2. Fired with intense feeling.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,^[1]

     Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.

3. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
   • 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, II. i. 544:

     She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. ii. 124:

     Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

Synonyms

• (fired with intense feeling): ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid

Derived terms

• passionate friendship

Related terms

• passion
• passive
• passivity
• patience
• patient

Translations

Noun

passionate (plural passionates)

1. A passionate individual.

Verb

passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)

1. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].

2. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, III. ii. 6:

     Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

Further reading

• passionate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• passionate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Adjective

passi?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of passi?n?tus

References

• passionate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Adjective

passionate

1. Alternative form of passionat

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?n.d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?n.d?/
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): /?t?n.d?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: ten?der
• Homophone: tinder (pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tender, tendere, from Anglo-Norman tender, Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum (“soft, delicate”).

Adjective

tender (comparative tenderer, superlative tenderest)

1. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, act III, scene 2:

     […] poore Lord, is't I
     That cha?e thee from thy Countrie, and expo?e
     Tho?e tender limbes of thine […]

   • 2006, Mike Myers (as the voice of the title character), Shrek (movie)

     Be careful: that area is tender.

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

3. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

   • the tender and delicate woman among you

4. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
   • 2001, Joey Pantolino (character), The Matrix (movie)

     The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender, succulent, and juicy.

5. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
6. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

   • The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

   • 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times

     I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.

7. Young and inexperienced.
   • 2001 October 15, Appeals Court of Illinios (Second District) in Appelhans v. McFall:

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

9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Cunning

     Things that are tender and unpleasing.

10. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
11. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
12. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

      tender of property

    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies

      The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion.

Synonyms

• (soft, yielding, delicate): nesh
• See also Thesaurus:affectionate

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

tender (countable and uncountable, plural tenders)

1. (obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.
2. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tender, tendur, tendir, tendre, from the adjective (see above).

Adverb

tender (comparative more tender, superlative most tender)

1. tenderly

   Love me tender, love me sweet
   Never let me go

Etymology 3

From Middle English tendren, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

1. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
   • , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233:

     To such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, […] these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths […].

   • c. 1947, Putnam Fadeless Dyes [flyer packaged with granulated dye]:

     Putnam Fadeless Dyes will not injure any material. Boiling water does tender some materials. […] Also, silk fibers are very tender when wet and care should be take not to boil them too vigorously.

2. (archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,^[1]

     The angrie king hath banished me the court:

     And therefore as thou louest and tendrest me,

     Be thou my aduocate vnto these peeres.

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 1 (First Folio edition):

     And ?o good Capulet, which name I tender

     As dearely as my owne, be ?atisfied.

Etymology 4

From tend +? -er.

Noun

tender (plural tenders)

1. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
2. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 201, [2]

     Half the coal was out of the tender, half the fire out of the box, half the trucks were off the track, so violent was the stopping.

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

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

Synonyms

• (smaller boat): dinghy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

1. To work on a tender.

Etymology 5

From Middle English tendren, from Old French tendre (“stretch out”).

Noun

tender (plural tenders)

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

   • Herein, the Bard plays with the word "tender" most liberally. The boldened instance of the word is that which pertains to the instant sense.

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

5. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.

6. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene 3

     [...] if she should make tender of her love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the man,—as you know all,—hath a contemptible spirit.

Translations

See also

• legal tender
• put out to tender
• put out for tender

Verb

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

1. (formal) To offer, to give.
   • 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

     I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
2. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

Synonyms

• offer

Derived terms

• tenderable
• tender something out

Translations

Anagrams

• enter'd, entred, rented, tendre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tender.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ten?der

Noun

tender m (plural tenders, diminutive tendertje n)

1. (finance) tender
2. (rail transport) coal-car

Synonyms

• (finance) aanbesteding

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tender

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?nd?r]
• Hyphenation: tèn?dêr

Etymology 1

From Dutch tender, from English tender, from Middle English tendren, from Old French tendre (“stretch out”).

Noun

tèndêr (first-person possessive tenderku, second-person possessive tendermu, third-person possessive tendernya)

1. (trading) tender, anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.

Derived terms

Compounds

Etymology 2

From Dutch tender, from English tender, tend +? -er

Noun

tèndêr (first-person possessive tenderku, second-person possessive tendermu, third-person possessive tendernya)

1. (transport) tender, a railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

Further reading

• “tender” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Verb

tender

1. Apocopic form of tendere

Middle English

Noun

tender

1. Alternative form of tinder

Polish

Etymology

From English tender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n.d?r/

Noun

tender m inan

1. (rail transport) tender (railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel)
2. (nautical) tender (ship functioning as mobile base for other ships)

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) tendrzak
• (adjective) tendrowy

Further reading

• tender in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tender in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tend?, from Proto-Italic *tend?, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t?.?de?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t?.?de(?)/

Verb

tender (first-person singular present indicative tendo, past participle tendido)

1. to tend
2. to trend

Conjugation

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tend?, from Proto-Italic *tend?, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ten?de?/, [t??n??d?e?]

Verb

tender (first-person singular present tiendo, first-person singular preterite tendí, past participle tendido)

1. (intransitive) to tend to, to have a tendency
2. (transitive) to spread, to stretch out
3. (transitive) to lay (cable)
4. (transitive) to make (a bed)
5. (transitive) to hang up (clothes)
6. (transitive) to build (a bridge across an expanse)
7. (transitive) to extend (the hand)
8. (transitive) to floor (with a punch), to stretch out
9. (transitive) to cast (a net)
10. (transitive) to set (a trap)
11. (transitive) to coat (with plaster)
12. (reflexive) to lay oneself down

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tenderse
• tender una trampa (“to be set up, to be framed”)
• hay ropa tendida
• tendedero
• tendedor

Related terms