MEANING
1. To request or seek something actively and earnestly.
2. To invite or approach someone for paid sexual activity.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- solicit advice
- solicit a response
On the page
The editor solicited an account from the only witness who had remained silent.
She solicited advice without surrendering the decision itself.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- solicit
- Past tense
- solicited
- Past participle
- solicited
- Present participle
- soliciting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- solicit
- Present continuous
- am/is/are soliciting
- Present perfect
- have/has solicited
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been soliciting
- Past
- solicited
- Past continuous
- was/were soliciting
- Past perfect
- had solicited
- Past perfect continuous
- had been soliciting
- Future
- will solicit
- Future continuous
- will be soliciting
- Future perfect
- will have solicited
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been soliciting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: solicit; solicits; solicited; solicited; soliciting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: solicits.
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