Synonyms for vicarious
- by proxy
- commissioned
- delegated
- deputed
- empathetic
- eventual
- imagined
- indirect
- pretended
- secondary
- substituted
- substitutional
- surrogate
- sympathetic
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR VICARIOUS
I could, perhaps, wring a somber, vicarious joy from the things that might have been.
Thus she can have a vicarious career by virtue of what she has put into her husband's.
It is vicarious suffering; for they do not know what is perplexing us.
There they met all the vicarious members of the Pullman Club—the wives.
It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.
I can't understand this passion for vicarious heroism, Johnny.
Nicky had sunk into his chair in his attitude of vicarious, shamefaced misery.
Explain the two-fold nature of this vicarious labor for the dead.
This vicarious situation did not tend to better his condition.
Is vicarious contrition at all more conceivable than vicarious retribution?
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR VICARIOUS
secondary
adjectivederivativesubstitute
adjectivealternative- acting
- additional
- alternate
- another
- artificial
- backup
- counterfeit
- dummy
- ersatz
- experimental
- false
- imitation
- makeshift
- mock
- near
- other
- provisional
- proxy
- pseudo
- replacement
- representative
- reserve
- second
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stopgap
- substitutive
- supplemental
- supplementary
- supposititious
- surrogate
- symbolic
- temporary
- tentative
- vicarial
- vicarious