Synonyms of soliciting

soliciting 1 of 3

adjective

as in prayerful

asking humbly

a soliciting tone is better when asking for lenient treatment you don't deserve

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prayerful
• pleading
• begging
• persistent
• entreating
• suppliant
• imploring
• supplicatory
• beseeching
• supplicating
• insistent
• supplicant
• importunate

soliciting

2 of 3

noun

as in begging

Related Words

• begging
• pleading
• petition
• request
• entreaty
• supplication
• appeal
• imploring
• beseeching
• collect
• suit
• invocation
• vespers
• thanksgiving
• matins
• prayer
• litany
• grace
• evensong
• orison
• requiescat

soliciting

3 of 3

verb

present participle of solicit

1

as in interviewing

to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information

solicited several opinions about which job he should accept

Synonyms & Similar Words

• interviewing
• surveying
• canvassing
• polling
• questioning
• interrogating
• circularizing
• feeling (out)
• sounding (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reporting

2

as in requesting

to make a request for

always ready to solicit donations for a charity

Synonyms & Similar Words

• requesting
• seeking
• desiring
• speaking (for)
• requiring
• suing (for)
• calling (for)
• pleading (for)
• urging
• asking (for)
• demanding
• inviting
• claiming
• applying (for)
• importuning
• invoking
• begging (for)
• wishing (for)
• questing
• clamoring (for)
• pressing (for)
• bespeaking
• insisting (on)
• enjoining
• petitioning (for)
• requisitioning
• exacting

3

as in asking

to make a request of

solicited him to join the team

Synonyms & Similar Words

• asking
• requesting
• inviting
• begging
• petitioning
• hitting (up)
• praying
• requiring
• calling on
• invoking
• imploring
• beseeching
• appealing (to)
• conjuring
• importuning
• entreating
• pleading (to)
• supplicating
• demanding
• enjoining
• exacting
• pressing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• requiring
• forcing
• compelling
• coercing
• obliging
• constraining

4

as in petitioning

to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner

solicit the President for relief funds

Synonyms & Similar Words

• begging
• petitioning
• asking
• praying
• imploring
• entreating
• beseeching
• supplicating
• conjuring
• importuning
• appealing (to)
• requesting
• requiring
• pleading (to)
• besieging
• calling on
• invoking
• impetrating
• coercing
• desiring
• suing
• forcing
• cadging
• insisting
• compelling
• demanding
• sponging
• claiming
• mooching
• bludging
• commanding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suggesting
• implying
• intimating
• hinting
• gratifying
• obliging
• pleasing
• satisfying
• appeasing
• conciliating
• pacifying
• comforting
• placating
• consoling
• quieting
• contenting
• mollifying

5

as in luring

to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage

how many men have been solicited into purchasing bogus aids for "male enhancement" by shameless appeals to their vanity?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• luring
• tempting
• seducing
• persuading
• enticing
• betraying
• baiting
• decoying
• alluring
• leading on
• beguiling
• trapping
• fascinating
• inveigling
• entrapping
• enchanting
• drawing in
• snaring
• ensnaring
• catching
• snowing
• meshing
• roping (in)
• enmeshing
• charming
• tangling
• captivating
• magnetizing
• bewitching
• wiling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• warning
• alerting
• cautioning
• warding (off)
• driving (away or off)
• forewarning
• turning away
• repulsing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of soliciting

Noun

Seybolt said the steps to choose the alternative standardized test are similar to the screener selection process, with the commission soliciting bids and making a recommendation to the state Board of Education. — Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 8 Sep. 2026

The man who was shot was possibly under the influence, according to the person who reported the soliciting. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2026

Truist is seeking compensatory damages, an injunction against further soliciting and hiring of its employees, and attorney fees. — Charlotte Observer, 29 Jan. 2026

Christopher George Santanelli, 42, is being held in the Broward County Main Jail on a charge of an authority figure soliciting or engaging in a romantic relationship with a student, jail records show. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026

Verb

The family traveled around the country preaching and soliciting donations, and when Gortner was 16, his father absconded with what was reported to be $3 million in donations. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

Earlier this year, Cook pleaded guilty to soliciting a child via computer and unlawful use of a two-way communications device. — Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

Cops waiting outside would then arrest them on charges of soliciting minors. — David MacK, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

The Giants’ starting quarterback is having season-ending surgery on his left knee after soliciting second opinions on the results of Tuesday’s MRI, coach John Harbaugh said Wednesday. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026

The board voted to move to the next step of the process, which includes soliciting feedback from the community. — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 22 Sep. 2026

Kobach sent emails to the group’s 295,000 donors soliciting contributions for his Senate campaign. — Cuyler Dunn, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026

Lamont’s administration, led by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, began soliciting bids for new contracts with Millstone and New Hampshire’s Seabrook Nuclear Power Station earlier this year. — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026

The 35-year-old was charged with one count of soliciting a minor and is being held on a $40,000 bond. — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026