gratuitous
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.
given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; complimentary.
Law. given without receiving any return value.
Origin of gratuitous
1Other words for gratuitous
1 | unnecessary, superfluous, redundant; causeless, unreasonable, groundless, unprovoked, unjustified |
2 | gratis |
Other words from gratuitous
- 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
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How to use gratuitous in a sentence
What’s missing from this gratuitous adaptation, which credits Watanabe as a consultant, is the atmosphere.
Netflix's Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Misunderstands What Made the Original a Classic | Judy Berman | November 15, 2021 | TimeSlott 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.
Punisher Writer Reveals Hero Has "Mountains" of Unpublished Stories | noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) | October 7, 2021 | TechCrunchWhile she missed Phoenix’s first-round nail-biter over New York, Sophie Cunningham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.
Why The Underdogs Have A Shot In The WNBA Semifinals | Howard Megdal | September 28, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightOne fellow entertainer suggested the conversion was a “gratuitous” effort to curry favor with Jewish nightclub owners and audiences.
The history fueling doubts over Britney Spears’s religious conversion | Rebecca Davis | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostIt 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.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down ‘Interstellar’: Black Holes, Time Dilations, and Massive Waves | Marlow Stern | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut God forbid a TV series premieres pushing out gratuitous emotion and gratuitous feeling.
‘Red Band Society’ Is Really Freaking Sad (And May Be TV’s Best New Drama) | Kevin Fallon | September 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | Various“I dare say that looked very much like a gratuitous impertinence from—the packer,” he observed.
The Gold Trail | Harold BindlossSuch are the ideas which the dogma of gratuitous predestination gives of Divinity!
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierMuch difficulty arose, in the distribution of gratuitous supplies of food, from the routine of the public offices.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanIn consequence, they have imagined many gratuitous suppositions to explain the union of the soul with the body.
Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
British Dictionary definitions for gratuitous
/ (ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs) /
given or received without payment or obligation
without cause; unjustified
law given or made without receiving any value in return: a gratuitous agreement
Origin of gratuitous
1Derived forms of gratuitous
- gratuitously, adverb
- gratuitousness, noun
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