Tenderest meaning : Sensitive or painful to the touch. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship. (of food) Soft and easily chewed. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet. Young and inexperienced. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate. Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.