The meaning of VICARIOUS is experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another. How to use vicarious in a sentence.

VICARIOUS definition: performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another. See examples of vicarious used in a sentence.

VICARIOUS definition: 1. experienced as a result of watching, listening to, or reading about the activities of other…. Learn more.

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 …

Definition of vicarious adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. felt or experienced by watching or reading about somebody else doing something, rather than by doing it yourself. He got a …

vicarious (vɪˈkɛərɪəs; vaɪ-) adj 1. obtained or undergone at second hand through sympathetic participation in another's experiences

vicarious, adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary