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 report said Epstein was able to use those connections as a facade to bolster his reputation, despite his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2026

Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court in 2008 to two prostitution charges, including one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under 18. — Graham Kates, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026

Georgia Power and its sister utility in Alabama are soliciting bids for more power generation into the next decade. — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Mountbatten-Windsor’s reputation has been tarnished by his relationship with Epstein ever since 2008, when the wealthy American financier pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution. — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026

All 21 people were cited on suspicion of soliciting prostitution, and four also received citations for drug possession. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Prior to his indictment, New was arrested at a Walmart in East Point, GA for allegedly soliciting customers to purchase SNAP EBT cards from him. — Preezy Brown, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026

Immediately upon being elected for the second time, his aides began soliciting checks at dinners where companies and donors angling for influence could buy face time with the leader of the free world, sometimes for a million dollars a head. — Marisela Cruz Jillian Anthony Marisela Cruz, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2026

But his reputation was dealt a grievous blow by the Epstein files, which showed that Botstein corresponded closely with the late financier for years, including after Epstein’s conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2026