1. solicitous - Adjective
2. solicitous - Verb
3. solicitous - Adjective Satellite
Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
Source: Webster's dictionarySlavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. Benjamin Franklin
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. Christopher Columbus
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. Thomas Malthus
And yet we must believe, on pain of being communal, that no system of law has guaranteed as many rights to women as shariah, that no religion is as solicitous of them as Islam. ... The argument can fool no one but the determined apologist. Arun Shourie
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach. James Wolfe
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. Karl Philipp Moritz