NURTURANT Synonyms

• a loving feeling

• feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others

• showing or having compassion

• share the suffering of

• feeling or showing worry or solicitude

• involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in

• culpably involved

• showing concern for the rights and feelings of others

• like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective

• soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe

• having or showing a kindly or tender nature

• quiet and soothing

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• easily handled or managed

• having little impact

• marked by moderate steepness

• cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

• give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility

• stroke soothingly

• having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

• a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

• agreeable, conducive to comfort

• tolerant and forgiving under provocation

• feeling or showing love and affection

• characteristic of a mother

• relating to or derived from one's mother

• relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent

• related on the mother's side

• in a maternal manner; as a mother

• befitting a mother; warm and nurturing

• belonging to or inherited from one's father

• characteristic of a father

• relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent

• related on the father's side

• intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind

• showing care

• (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful

• furnishing support or assistance

• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

• easy to cut or chew

• physically untoughened

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

• a boat for communication between ship and shore

• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

• hurting

• young and immature

• having or displaying warmth or affection

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

• offer or present for acceptance

• propose a payment

• make a tender of; in legal settlements

• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer