Vocabulary Word
Word: solicitous
Definition: anxious; worried; concerned; eager; Ex. solicitous to do something; N. solicitude
Definition: anxious; worried; concerned; eager; Ex. solicitous to do something; N. solicitude
Sentences Containing 'solicitous'
A reputable physician is solicitous regarding the permanent welfare of his patient and administers carefully chosen and harmless drugs.
Never wont to use the baths at unseasonable hours; no builder; never curious, or solicitous, either about his meat, or about the workmanship, or colour of his clothes, or about anything that belonged to external beauty.
From Sancho they took his coat, leaving him in his shirt-sleeves; and dividing among themselves the remaining spoils of the battle, they went each one his own way, more solicitous about keeping clear of the Holy Brotherhood they dreaded, than about burdening themselves with the chain, or going to present themselves before the lady Dulcinea del Toboso.
As I was already much attached to Mr. Dick, and very solicitous for his welfare, my fears favoured this supposition; and for a long time his Wednesday hardly ever came round, without my entertaining a misgiving that he would not be on the coach-box as usual.
said my aunt.) 'It was at that time that mama was most solicitous about my Cousin Maldon.
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