gratuitous
20 07 2009Adjectives
1. (adj.) gratuitous;
- without cause;
- “a gratuitous insult”;
2. (adj.) complimentary, costless, free, gratis, gratuitous;
- costing nothing;
- “complimentary tickets”; “free admission”;
3. (adj.) gratuitous, needless, uncalled-for;
- unnecessary and unwarranted;
- “a strikers’ tent camp…was burned with needless loss of life”;
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