solicitous
adjective
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If you're solicitous about learning the connections between words, you'll surely want to know about the relationship between solicitous and another word you've probably heard before—solicit. Solicitous doesn't come from solicit, but the two words are related. They both have their roots in the Latin word sollicitus, meaning "anxious." Solicitous itself came directly from this Latin word, whereas solicit made its way to English with a few more steps. From sollicitus came the Latin verb sollicitare, meaning "to disturb, agitate, move, or entreat." Forms of this verb were borrowed into Anglo-French, and then Middle English, and have survived in Modern English as solicit.
Examples of solicitous in a Sentence
Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2021
That leaves Britain subject to the same blanket tariffs as a host of countries that have not been as solicitous toward Washington.
—Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
The Brotherhood has been equally solicitous of Israel, after all, continuing to enforce the blockade of Gaza despite its ideological sympathy with Hamas.
—Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2013
Amid tensions with European allies, Trump is solicitous with Putin, who in turn praised Trump Thursday for working to re-engage with Russia.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Solicitous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solicitous. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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