solicitously

1. 1.

   in a concerned and solicitous manner

   “`Don't you feel well?' his mother asked solicitously”

Questions about solicitously

What does solicitously mean?

solicitously means "in a concerned and solicitous manner".

How many syllables are in solicitously?

solicitously has 5 syllables and divides as so-li-ci-tou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is solicitously a common word?

solicitously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.