tenderhearted

Definition

Compassionate for another's distress.

Etymology

From tender + hearted.

Example Sentences

• "I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare."
• "The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in."