Definitions for vicarious

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vicarious vi·car·i·ous

Spelling: [vahy-kair-ee-uh s, vi-]

IPA: /vaɪˈkɛər i əs, vɪ-/

Vicarious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 307 anagrams from letters in vicarious (aciiorsuv).

Definitions for vicarious

adjective

1. performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another:
2. taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.
3. felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others:
4. Physiology. noting or pertaining to a situation in which one organ performs part of the functions normally performed by another.

Origin of vicarious

1630-40; Latin vicārius substituting, equivalent to vic(is) (genitive) interchange, alternation (see vice³), + -ārius -ary; see

Examples for vicarious

He reads biographies, he dreams of great men—a vicarious pleasure, presumably.

But the appeal of Harlequins is more than just vicarious sex.

But the old city, site of the bull run, has the inevitable trappings of a theme park for aficionados of the vicarious kind.

It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.

I could, perhaps, wring a somber, vicarious joy from the things that might have been.

There they met all the vicarious members of the Pullman Club—the wives.

It is vicarious suffering; for they do not know what is perplexing us.

You may feel dizzy from all the vicarious Scotch-drinking, too; the series is that visceral.

David, I want to shake you and say, do not use our lives as vicarious proof for your consumer conservatism.

Thus she can have a vicarious career by virtue of what she has put into her husband's.