Solicitous

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Anxious or concerned: a solicitous parent.
  • adj. Expressing care or concern: made solicitous inquiries about our family. See Synonyms at thoughtful.
  • adj. Full of desire; eager.
  • adj. Marked by or given to anxious care and often hovering attentiveness.
  • adj. Extremely careful; meticulous: solicitous in matters of behavior.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
  • adj. Anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Anxious; concerned; apprehensive; eager, whether to obtain something desirable or to avoid something evil; very desirous; greatly concerned; disturbed; uneasy: as, a solicitous temper or temperament: generally followed by an infinitive, or by about, concerning, or for (less frequently of) before the object of anxiety or concern.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. full of anxiety and concern
  • adj. showing hovering attentiveness
  • Equivalent
    concerned    attentive   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    concerned    anxious    careful   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    felicitous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts