| 单词 | vicarious |
| 释义 | vicarious (vɪkeəriəs, US vaɪkær-) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A vicarious pleasure or feeling is experienced by watching, listening to, or reading about other people doing something, rather than by doing it yourself. She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure. Lots of people use television as their vicarious form of social life. Synonyms: indirect, substitute, surrogate, by proxy More Synonyms of vicarious vicariously adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] ...a father who lived vicariously through his sons' success. More Synonyms of vicarious vicarious in British English (vɪˈkɛərɪəs, vaɪ-) adjective 1. obtained or undergone at second hand through sympathetic participation in another's experiences 2. suffered, undergone, or done as the substitute for another vicarious punishment 3. delegated vicarious authority 4. taking the place of another 5. pathology (of menstrual bleeding) occurring at an abnormal site endometriosis Derived forms vicariously (viˈcariously) adverb vicariousness (viˈcariousness) noun Word origin C17: from Latin vicārius substituted, from vicis interchange; see vice3, vicissitudevicarious in American English (vaɪˈkɛriəs; vɪˈkɛriəs) adjective 1. a. taking the place of another thing or person; substitute; deputy b. held or handled by one person as the deputy of another; delegated vicarious powers 2. a. endured, suffered, or performed by one person in place of another vicarious punishment b. shared in or experienced by imagined participation in another's experience a vicarious thrill 3. Physiology designating or of a function abnormally performed by other than the usual organ or part vicarious menstruation Derived forms vicariously (viˈcariously) adverb vicariousness (viˈcariousness) noun Word origin L vicarius, substituted: see vicarExamples of 'vicarious' in a sentence |
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