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unsolicitous

unsolicitous adjective: not solicitous.

Adjective

unsolicitous (comparative more unsolicitous, superlative most unsolicitous)

  1. Not solicitous.
    • Gates told me Crowley was so “gruff” and unsolicitous “the hair on my neck stood up.”2009 July 26, Maureen Dowd, “Bite Your Tongue”, in New York Times

Forms of unsolicitous

comparativemore unsolicitous
superlativemost unsolicitous

Origin of unsolicitous

From un- + solicitous.

Words formed from unsolicitous

Questions about unsolicitous

What does unsolicitous mean?
Unsolicitous means not solicitous.
What part of speech is unsolicitous?
Unsolicitous is an adjective.

Words near unsolicitous in the dictionary

  1. unsolemnizing
  2. unsolemnly
  3. unsolicitated
  4. unsolicited
  5. unsolicitedly
  6. unsolicitous
  7. unsolicitously
  8. unsolicitousness
  9. unsolid
  10. unsolidarity
  11. unsolidifiable

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