Solicitous

Adjective

 * 1) Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
 * Solicitous of my reputation. -John Dryden.
 * He was solicitous for his advice. -Edward Hyde Clarendon.
 * Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future. - Jeremy Taylor.
 * The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous to finish the fortifications. -Edward Hyde Clarendon.
 * 1) Anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.

Thesaurus
accommodating, accommodative, affable, agitated, agreeable, all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, ardent, athirst, attentive, avid, bothered, careful, caring, cautious, circumspect, civil, complaisant, concerned, considerate, courteous, curious, deferential, delicate, desirous, disquieted, disturbed, eager, earnest, fair, fearful, foreboding, graceful, gracious, heedful, helpful, impatient, in a pucker, in a stew, indulgent, keen, lenient, loving, mindful, mindful of others, misgiving, nervous, obliging, on tenterhooks, overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbed, polite, raring, regardful, respectful, strained, suspenseful, tactful, tender, tense, thirsty, thoughtful, tolerant, troubled, uneasy, urbane, worried, zealous

Etymology
From solicitus:, alternative spelling of sollicitus:. See solicit.

Derived terms

 * solicitously
 * solicitousness