Usually means: Eager or anxious to help.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. solicitous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. solicitous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. solicitous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. solicitous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. solicitous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Solicitous, solicitous: Wordnik
  7. solicitous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. solicitous: Wiktionary
  9. solicitous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. solicitous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. solicitous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. solicitous: Dictionary.com
  13. solicitous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. solicitous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Solicitous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. solicitous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. solicitous: Rhymezone
  18. Solicitous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. solicitous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. solicitous: Free Dictionary
  21. solicitous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. solicitous: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solicitous: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solicitous: A Word A Day

(Note: See solicitously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil.
adjective:  (Usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause) Showing care, concern, or attention, in any of several ways; thus:
adjective:  In a conscientious way, often with kindness.
adjective:  In an eager way.
adjective:  In an anxious or distressed way.

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