SOLICIT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SOLICIT?

Need another word that means the same as “solicit”? Find 39 synonyms and 30 related words for “solicit” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Solicit” are: beg, tap, accost, hook, court, romance, woo, ask for, request, apply for, put in for, seek, plead for, sue for, crave, canvass, call for, drum up, press for, ask, beseech, implore, plead with, entreat, appeal to, apply to, lobby, petition, importune, supplicate, call on, press, pressure, work as a prostitute, engage in prostitution, accost people, make sexual advances, tout, tout for business

Solicit as a Verb

Definitions of "Solicit" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “solicit” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination.
• Ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone.
• Make amorous advances towards.
• Make a solicitation or petition for something desired.
• Ask (someone) for something.
• Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently.
• Accost someone and offer one's or someone else's services as a prostitute.
• Approach with an offer of sexual favors.

Synonyms of "Solicit" as a verb (39 Words)

accost	Approach with an offer of sexual favors. Reporters accosted him in the street.
accost people	Speak to someone.
appeal to	Challenge (a decision.
apply for	Be applicable to; as to an analysis.
apply to	Apply to a surface.
ask	Require or ask for as a price or condition. She asked him for a loan.
ask for	Require or ask for as a price or condition.
beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. They had to beg for food.
beseech	Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat. They earnestly beseeched his forgiveness.
call for	Order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role.
call on	Pay a brief visit.
canvass	Solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign. They promised to canvass all member clubs for their views.
court	Make amorous advances towards. He has often courted controversy.
crave	Feel a powerful desire for (something. Will craved for family life.
drum up	Study intensively, as before an exam.
engage in prostitution	Hire for work or assistance.
entreat	Ask earnestly or anxiously for (something. The King I fear hath ill entreated her.
hook	Bend into the shape of a hook so as to fasten around or to an object. The truck had a red lamp hooked to its tailgate.
implore	Beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something. He implored her to change her mind.
importune	Harass (someone) persistently for or to do something. The president would importune them to try harder.
lobby	Seek to influence (a legislator) on an issue. The organization was formed to lobby for student concerns.
make sexual advances	Make or cause to be or to become.
petition	Write a petition for something to somebody request formally and in writing. The organization is petitioning the EU for a moratorium on the patent.
plead for	Offer as an excuse or plea.
plead with	Offer as an excuse or plea.
press	Create by pressing. This is a pressing problem.
press for	Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for.
pressure	Exert pressure on someone through threats. She pressured her son to accept a job offer from the bank.
put in for	Make an investment.
request	Inquire for (information. I requested that she type the entire manuscript.
romance	Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions. The wealthy estate owner romanced her.
seek	Make an effort or attempt. Seek directions from a local.
sue for	Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.
supplicate	Ask humbly (for something. He supplicated the King for clemency.
tap	Walk with a tapping sound. Tap a cask of wine.
tout	Attempt to persuade people of the merits of. This product was touted as a revolutionary invention.
tout for business	Show off.
woo	Seek the favour, support, or custom of. Pop stars are being wooed by film companies eager to sign them up.
work as a prostitute	Behave in a certain way when handled.

Usage Examples of "Solicit" as a verb

• Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce.
• Prostitutes solicit openly on the streets.
• He called a meeting to solicit their views.
• Historians and critics are solicited for opinions by the auction houses.
• He met her while she was soliciting in Soho.
• Don't solicit for money.
• He was solicited by a prostitute.
• My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities.
• She is too shy to solicit.
• The young man was caught soliciting in the park.
• He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents.

Associations of "Solicit" (30 Words)

accost	Approach with an offer of sexual favors. He was accosted by a thief demanding his money or his life.
adjure	Command solemnly. I adjure you to tell me the truth.
appeal	An application to a higher court for a decision to be reversed. A public appeal to raise 120 000.
asking	The verbal act of requesting.
beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. I beg you to stop.
beseech	Ask for or request earnestly. They beseeched him to stay.
cadge	Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling. He cadged fivers off old school friends.
conjure	(of a word, sound, smell, etc.) cause someone to think of (something. They hoped to conjure up the spirit of their dead friend.
demand	The act of demanding. An outraged public demanded retribution.
desperately	In intense despair. The soil desperately needed potash.
entreat	Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something. A message had been sent entreating aid for the Navahos.
entreaty	An earnest or humble request. An entreaty to stop the fighting.
exhortation	A communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action. Exhortations to consumers to switch off electrical appliances.
implore	Beg earnestly for. Please don t talk that way Ellen implored.
importune	Beg persistently and urgently. The girl is charged with loitering in a public place with intent to solicit or importune another person.
invitation	A written or verbal request inviting someone to go somewhere or to do something. Tactics like those of the colonel would have been an invitation to disaster.
invite	Invite someone to one s house. We invited the neighbors in for a cup of coffee.
necessary	(of a concept, statement, etc.) inevitably resulting from the nature of things, so that the contrary is impossible. See when they need a tactful word of advice and do the necessary.
necessity	Anything indispensable. The necessity of providing parental guidance.
perforce	By necessity; by force of circumstance. Amateurs perforce have to settle for less expensive solutions.
petition	Write a petition for something to somebody request formally and in writing. A steady stream of petitions to Allah were audible.
plea	A humble request for help from someone in authority. He made a dramatic plea for disarmament.
plead	Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. She was pleading insanity.
pray	Address a deity a prophet a saint or an object of worship say a prayer. After several days of rain we were praying for sun.
request	A tune or song played on a radio programme typically accompanied by a personal message in response to a listener s request. I requested information from the secretary.
solicitation	The act of asking for or trying to obtain something from someone. People objected to receiving telephone solicitations.
suppliant	Humbly entreating. Their faces were wary and suppliant.
supplicant	A person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power or authority. A supplicant serf before an ill tempered monarch.
supplicate	Ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer. The plutocracy supplicated to be made peers.
woo	Make amorous advances towards. China is wooing Russia.