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solicited
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sought |
| Synonyms: | approached, asked for, invited, petitioned, requested |
| Main Entry: | urged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pressed |
| Synonyms: | adjured, advised, allured, asked, begged, charged, coaxed, coerced, commanded, desired, exhorted, forced, implored, influenced, lured, motivated, moved, prompted, requested, solicited, wheedled |
| Concept: | Desire. |
| Category: | 3. Prospective Affections |
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-adjectives
desirous; desiring; inclined (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharpset, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse., greedy, greedy as a hog; overeager, voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, covetous, rapacious, grasping, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous., unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked.
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| Antonyms: | indifference; dislike |
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| Concept: | Request. |
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-adjectives
requesting; precatory; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory., importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.
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