Synonyms of soliciting

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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

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

Some of the women said the male operators assaulted them after soliciting them for jet ski rides from small islands just east of Paradise Island, downtown Nassau, and Paradise Island beaches, according to the security alert. —Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 16 June 2026

In July 2003, Jones pleaded no contest to soliciting a minor and prosecutors agreed to drop the possession of child pornography charge, and he was sentenced to five years of probation. —Emma Urdangen, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026

But even as the hall was collapsing, The Star reported, Kansas City businessmen Walter Dickey and Uriah Epperson were soliciting pledges from onlookers to launch the rebuilding. —Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026

In 2011 — three years after Jeffrey Epstein plead guilty to charges of soliciting prostitution of a minor — Microsoft founder Bill Gates started communicating with him extensively. —Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 June 2026

Securities regulators are currently soliciting public comment on a proposal to require public companies to file the financial reports only twice every year. —ABC News, 11 June 2026

Their relationship began in 2011, three years after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting prostitution from a minor, and continued until at least late 2014, according to the documents. —Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 10 June 2026

On Saturday, Platner’s campaign was allowed inside the Massachusetts Democratic Convention in Worcester, with Platner staffers displaying campaign signs while soliciting donations and volunteers. —Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026

Lula, who is seeking reelection, accused Bolsonaro allies of soliciting foreign interference for domestic political gain. —Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 1 June 2026