Dictionary Entry
vicarious
vicarious is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as preposition and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1preposition
Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
- 2preposition
Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
- 3preposition
Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.
- 4preposition
Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
- 5adjective
suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another
"vicarious atonement"
- 6adjective
occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function
"vicarious menstruation"
- 7adjective
experienced at secondhand
"read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"
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