Solicitous means apprehensive, meticulously careful, or full of desire and eager.
Solicitous means apprehensive, meticulously careful, or full of desire and eager.
| Front | solicitous \suh-LIH-suh-tuhs or suh-LIHS-tuhs\ |
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| Back | adjective 1. Apprehensive. 2. Meticulously careful. 3. Full of desire: eager. [From Latin sollus (whole). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole), which brought us solid, salute, save, salvo, soldier, catholicity, salutary, and salubrious. Earliest documented use: 1563.] "The staff is solicitous of its core customer; efficient with others." - Alexandra Jacobs; Dennis Basso's New Shop; The New York Times; Dec 12, 2013. |
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