Sample Sentences for
solicitous
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    He looked so peculiar that several people commented on it solicitously when the song was done.  (source)
    solicitously = in a manner that showed concern for him
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    Lombard said: "So that's the reason for your womanly solicitude!"  (source)
    solicitude = behavior that shows care or concern for someone
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    "Suddenly you're so solicitous," she said.  (source)
    solicitous = showing care or concern for someone
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    nothing could exceed his solicitude and care  (source)
    solicitude = great concern
    standard suffix: Solicitude is the noun form of the adjective solicitous. The suffix "-tude" is often used to create a noun that means "state, condition, or quality" as seen in the words gratitude, fortitude, and multitude.
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    She was the most skillful of the nurses, the most solicitous and helpful, the most friendly.  (source)
    solicitous = showing care or concern for someone
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    That one in the truck just ahead, bending solicitously, even tenderly, over her patient....What was passing through her mind just now?†  (source)
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    Meanwhile Stubb, the third mate, betrayed no such far-gazing solicitudes.†  (source)
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    He came to me, patient, gentle, and I found his solicitousness so strange that I did not know how to understand it.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    This is my very house, my Mountview house in Bedley Run, understated and grand and unsolicitous of anything but the most honorable regard, and despite how magnificently Liv Crawford has directed its exacting restoration, I cannot escape feeling a mere proximateness to all its exhibits and effects, this oddly unsatisfying museum that she has come to curate for this visitation and the many that will someday follow.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsolicitous means not and reverses the meaning of solicitous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "Good lady," Varys said with great solicitude.†  (source)
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    The rider, solicitous, hopped down, offered him the horse, led the animal by the bridle, making Chamberlain feel boyish and ridiculous.  (source)
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    "I say," Helmholtz exclaimed solicitously, "you do look ill, John!"†  (source)
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    His ostensible "aunt's" solicitudes and endearments were become a terror to him, and he avoided them.†  (source)
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