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vicissitous

vicissitous adjective: of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.

Adjective

vicissitous (comparative more vicissitous, superlative most vicissitous)

  1. (dated) Of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.
    • The Prudential, which had a vicissitous youth, has arrived at a fortune that has established its name in every part of the world and carried its President into the United States Senate.1902, The Insurance Economist, volume 26, page xxvi
    • The weakness of Governor Foote's vicissitous career in connection with public affairs may be properly ascribed to an apparent vacillation or eccentricity, which he at times displayed […]1967, A. Roman and Company, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine

Forms of vicissitous

comparativemore vicissitous
superlativemost vicissitous

Words formed from vicissitous

Questions about vicissitous

What does vicissitous mean?
Vicissitous means of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.
What part of speech is vicissitous?
Vicissitous is an adjective.

Words near vicissitous in the dictionary

  1. viciousest
  2. viciously
  3. viciousness
  4. viciousnesses
  5. vicissities
  6. vicissitous
  7. vicissitude
  8. vicissitudes
  9. vicissitudinal
  10. vicissitudinary
  11. vicissitudinous

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