vicar | (noun) a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman | - |
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(noun) (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish | - |
(noun) (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel | - |
vicarage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, rectory |
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vicarial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a vicar | - |
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vicariate | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicarship |
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vicarious | (adjective) occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function | - |
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(adjective) suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another | - |
(adjective) experienced at secondhand | - |
vicariously | (adverb) indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute | - |
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vicarship | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicariate |
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vice | (noun) a specific form of evildoing | - |
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(noun) a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place | Synonyms: bench vise, vise |
(noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: frailty |
vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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vicenary | (adjective) of or relating to or based on 20 | - |
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vicennial | (adjective) occurring once every 20 years | - |
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viceregal | (adjective) of or relating to a viceroy | - |
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vicereine | (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: viceroy |
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(noun) wife of a viceroy | - |
viceroy | (noun) showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller | Synonyms: Limenitis archippus |
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(noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: vicereine |
viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
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viceroyship | (noun) the position of viceroy | - |
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vichyssoise | (noun) a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold | - |
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vicinal | (adjective) belonging to or limited to a vicinity | - |
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vicinity | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood |
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vicious | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage |
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(adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: poisonous, venomous |
(adjective) having the nature of vice | Synonyms: evil |
(adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible |
viciously | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: brutally, savagely |
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viciousness | (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, savagery |
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vicissitude | (noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) | - |
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(noun) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | - |
victim | (noun) an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance | - |
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(noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: dupe |
victimisation | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimization |
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victimise | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimize |
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(verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimize |
victimised | (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimized |
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victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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victimization | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimisation |
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(noun) adversity resulting from being made a victim | - |
victimize | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimise |
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(verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimise |
(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle |
victimized | (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised |
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victimizer | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimiser |
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victor | (noun) the contestant who wins the contest | Synonyms: winner |
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(noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: master, superior |
victorian | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
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victorious | (adjective) having won | Synonyms: winning |
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(adjective) experiencing triumph | Synonyms: triumphant |
victoriously | (adverb) in a victorious manner | - |
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victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
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victual | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victuals |
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(verb) take in nourishment | - |
(verb) lay in provisions | - |
(verb) supply with food | - |
victualer | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualler |
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(noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualler |
victualler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualer |
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(noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualer |
victuals | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victual |
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(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance |
(noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, viands |
vicuna | (noun) small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat | Synonyms: Vicugna vicugna |
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(noun) a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna | - |
(noun) the wool of the vicuna | - |