Words that rhyme with tenderness

  • bitterness
    n 1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour] 2: a rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness] 3: the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth [syn: bitter, bitterness] 4: the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste [syn: bitterness, bitter]
  • eagerness
    n 1: a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something [syn: eagerness, avidity, avidness, keenness] 2: prompt willingness; "readiness to continue discussions"; "they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel"; "they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority"; "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle" [syn: readiness, eagerness, zeal, forwardness]
  • gelatinous
    adj 1: thick like gelatin [syn: gelatinous, gelatinlike, jellylike]
  • glutinous
    adj 1: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous]
  • gluttonous
    adj 1: given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" [ant: abstemious]
  • libidinous
    adj 1: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful]
  • monotonous
    adj 1: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum, monotonous] 2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous]
  • mountainous
    adj 1: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous] 2: like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man" 3: containing many mountains
  • multitudinous
    adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable]
  • mutinous
    adj 1: disposed to or in a state of mutiny; "the men became mutinous and insubordinate" 2: consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny; "mutinous acts"; "mutinous thoughts"; "a mutinous speech"
  • platitudinous
    adj 1: dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons" [syn: bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous]
  • pulchritudinous
    adj 1: used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"
  • slenderness
    n 1: the quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence" 2: relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope" [syn: thinness, tenuity, slenderness] [ant: thickness] 3: the property of an attractively thin person [syn: slenderness, slightness, slimness]
  • tetanus
    n 1: an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages [syn: tetanus, lockjaw] 2: a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses
  • wilderness
    n 1: (politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness" 2: a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War 3: a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers" [syn: wilderness, wild] 4: a bewildering profusion; "the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups"; "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"
  • chitinous
    adj 1: of or resembling chitin
  • cretinous
    adj 1: afflicted with cretinism
  • eridanus
    n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Fornax and Cetus
  • limberness
  • patulous
  • trichinous
  • velutinous
  • lichenous

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