solicitous.

Showing careful concern for another person’s needs, comfort, or welfare.

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Words that belong together

• solicitous care
• solicitous about someone’s welfare

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The hostess was solicitous about the stranger’s injured hand.

His solicitous questions left her little room to conceal her exhaustion.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more solicitous; superlative most solicitous. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.