tender-mindedly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "William tough-mindedly adopted the ideology of the expanding bourgeoisie, while Henry, Jr., tender-mindedly turned to the philosophy of the leisure class and "joined himself, therefore, to the great aristocratic tradition in European literature.""
- "They are either tough-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is the real world or tender-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is somehow an illusion, or at any rate an imperfect, changing, and therefore an unreal copy or reflection […]"
- "We do not owe greater help tender-mindedly out of pity for the weak, but tough-mindedly out of our interest in possible enlightenment by those receiving assistance."
Etymology
From tender-minded + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more tender-mindedly (comparative)
most tender-mindedly (superlative)