Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
full of anxiety and concern;
- Example: "solicitous parents"- Example: "solicitous about the future"2.
showing hovering attentiveness;
- Example: "solicitous about her health"- Example: "made solicitous inquiries about our family"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Solicitous \So*lic"it*ous\, a.[L. sollicitus, solicitus. See
Solicit, v. t.]
Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or
to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
"Solicitous of my reputation." --Dryden. "He was solicitous
for his advice." --Calerendon.
[1913 Webster]
Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not
solicitous about the future. --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not
enough solicitous to finish the fortifications.
--Clarendon.
[1913 Webster] -- So*lic"it*ous*ly, adv. --
So*lic"it*ous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
solicitous
adj 1: full of anxiety and concern; "solicitous parents";
"solicitous about the future"
2: showing hovering attentiveness; "solicitous about her
health"; "made solicitous inquiries about our family"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "solicitous":
accommodating, accommodative, affable, agitated, agreeable,
all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, ardent, athirst,
attentive, avid, bothered, careful, caring, cautious, circumspect,
civil, complaisant, concerned, considerate, courteous, curious,
deferential, delicate, desirous, disquieted, disturbed, eager,
earnest, fair, fearful, foreboding, graceful, gracious, heedful,
helpful, impatient, in a pucker, in a stew, indulgent, keen,
lenient, loving, mindful, mindful of others, misgiving, nervous,
obliging, on tenterhooks, overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbed,
polite, raring, regardful, respectful, strained, suspenseful,
tactful, tender, tense, thirsty, thoughtful, tolerant, troubled,
uneasy, urbane, worried, zealous