vicarious
Meaning of vicarious
adjective
- Delegated.
- Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience, rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.
People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television.
- On behalf of others.
The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.
Information about vicarious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of vicarious
vi-car-i-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 9 chars.
- vicarious is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Translation of vicarious
- Spanish: aprendido, vicario, emulado
- Portuguese: vicário
- German: stellvertretend
- French: vicariant
- Italian: vicario
Words that rhyme with vicarious
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