How do you pronounce vicarious?

The recorded pronunciation is /vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/.

vicarious

/vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: vi-car-i-ous
IPA: /vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/

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Meaning

adj

Delegated.

adj

Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.

adj

On behalf of others.

Example Sentences

"People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television."
"The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous. When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity."
"These are people getting some sort of vicarious thrill from the street violence people like Tommy Robinson promote. Those that are attacking Jess Philips, who I'm proud to call colleague and a friend, are not protecting victims."
"The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions."
"As time went on, the cruel custom was so far mitigated that a ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim."
"In these, however, he had not much time to indulge, for a footman, still decked in the trappings of vicarious grief, opened the door with the most startling promptitude, and he was ushered upstairs into a small but richly furnished room."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der. Latin vicis Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Latin vicāriusbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English vicarious From Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substituted”) + English -ous. First attested in the 17th century. Doublet of vicar.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/
British English: /vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/

Derived Forms

nonvicarious omnivicarious unvicarious vicariously vicariousness vicarity

Phrases

vicarious atonement vicarious embarrassment vicarious experience vicarious grief vicarious learning vicarious liability vicarious plants vicarious punishment

Frequently Paired Words

vicar

Rhymes With

various hilarious precarious aquarius nefarious gregarious stradivarius calcareous multifarious belisarius carious sicarius