tenderhearted

See also: tender-hearted

English

From tender +‎ hearted.

tenderhearted (comparative more tenderhearted, superlative most tenderhearted)

Compassionate for another's distress.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
  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.
Easily moved to love.

compassionate