The antonyms of tender are: strong, rough, withered, dry, shriveled.
1. Stout
1. Pinyin: cū zhuàng
2. Definition: refers to thick and strong.
3. Citation explanation:
(1) Zhou Libo's "The First Night": A calligrapher wrote two lines of thick large characters in a very chic and unrestrained italics.
(2) Wei Wei's "Who is the cutest person·Fireline Spring Festival Night": Suddenly I heard a strong, loud and cheerful voice shouting from the hillside: Comrades! Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I have brought you meat!
2. Roughness
1. Pinyin: cū cāo
2. Definition: refers to roughness; sloppyness.
3. Quotations and explanations:
(1) Guo Moruo's "Haitao Ji·Across the East China Sea": When Anna went to pick her up, two or three people had already broken into the room. Here comes. Seeing me sleeping, someone said roughly: Oh, are you sick?
(2) Chapter 13 of the fifth part of Wei Wei's "The East": The censorship work is too rough. This is a very serious lesson!
3. Wither
1. Pinyin: kū wěi
2. Definition: refers to shrinking due to dryness.
3. Quotations and explanations:
(1) Ba Jin's "Home" 14: Don't be like that grass, which falls down and withers as soon as the frost comes.
(2) Feng Xuefeng's "Song of Truth·Wind": Wind! It not only blows away the withering of the mountains and fields, but also makes the mountains and hills show a rare charm.
4. Withered
1. Pinyin: gān kū
2. Definition: Refers to the decay of vegetation and loss of moisture; dry and shrunken skin.
3. Quotations and explanations:
(1) Zhang Tianyi's "Back and Breasts": He felt that all the scenery was cute. Those dry and skinny trees seemed very slender.
(2) Xiao Hong's "Bridge": Her lyrics gradually dried up.
5. Withered
1. Pinyin: gān biě
2. Definition: refers to dryness and shrinkage; not plump.
3. Citation explanation:
(1) Guo Xiaochuan's poem "Shine, Fire of Youth": The burden of life has made her skin shriveled.
(2) Shu Ting's poem "Motherland, My Dear Motherland": I am a shriveled ear of rice and a roadbed in disrepair.