Vicarious

Adjective

 * 1) Experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another, such as through watching or reading.
 * People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television.
 * 1) Done on behalf of others
 * The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.

Derived terms

 * vicarious pleasure

Adverbs for Vicarious
altogether; comfortably; perilously; wholly; strangely; generously; curiously; merely.

Thesaurus
alternate, alternative, assigned, backup, commissioned, counterfeit, delegated, dummy, equivalent, ersatz, fake, imitation, indirect, makeshift, mock, phony, pinch, provisional, proxy, reserve, secondary, spare, stopgap, substitute, substituted, surrogate, temporary, tentative, token, utility

Related terms

 * vicar
 * vicariously