tenderhearted

adj

Etymology: From tender + hearted.

1. Compassionate for another's distress.

   “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.”

2. Easily moved to love.