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gratuitous
[ gruh-too-i-tuhs, -tyoo- ]
adjective
- being without apparent reason, cause, or justification:
It looks to me like a baseless and gratuitous insult—like you have a huge chip on your shoulder.
Synonyms: gratis, groundless, unreasonable, redundant, superfluous, unnecessary
- given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; complimentary.
- Law. given without receiving any return value.
gratuitous
/ ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs /
adjective
- given or received without payment or obligation
- without cause; unjustified
- law given or made without receiving any value in return
a gratuitous agreement
Derived Forms
- graˈtuitousness, noun
- graˈtuitously, adverb
Other Words From
- gra·tu·i·tous·ly adverb
- gra·tu·i·tous·ness noun
- non·gra·tu·i·tous adjective
- non·gra·tu·i·tous·ness noun
- un·gra·tu·i·tous adjective
- un·gra·tu·i·tous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of gratuitous1
Word History and Origins
Origin of gratuitous1
Example Sentences
What’s missing from this gratuitous adaptation, which credits Watanabe as a consultant, is the atmosphere.
Slott said that he worked with Kane on a particularly violent Two-Gun Kid issue which was censored before publishing but was then published in its gratuitous entirety in a special Gil Kane tribute issue.
While she missed Phoenix’s first-round nail-biter over New York, Sophie Cunningham entered the game and impersonated her mentor, right down to the made threes and gratuitous technical.
One fellow entertainer suggested the conversion was a “gratuitous” effort to curry favor with Jewish nightclub owners and audiences.
It seemed gratuitous and counter-intuitive in a story that had already inflicted more than enough suffering.
And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.
Initially, I thought, “OK, they have to throw in a wave… that looks gratuitous.”
But God forbid a TV series premieres pushing out gratuitous emotion and gratuitous feeling.
The Israeli soldiers, my age, sat impassively on a bench while babies cried and a man complained about gratuitous humiliation.
A baronet scientifically skilled in pugilism, enjoyed no pleasure so much as giving gratuitous instructions in his favorite art.
“I dare say that looked very much like a gratuitous impertinence from—the packer,” he observed.
Such are the ideas which the dogma of gratuitous predestination gives of Divinity!
Much difficulty arose, in the distribution of gratuitous supplies of food, from the routine of the public offices.
In consequence, they have imagined many gratuitous suppositions to explain the union of the soul with the body.
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