Definitions for gratuitous

gratuitous gra·tu·i·tous

Spelling: [gruh-too-i-tuh s, -tyoo-]
IPA: /grəˈtu ɪ təs, -ˈtyu-/

Gratuitous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 494 anagrams from letters in gratuitous (agiorsttuu).

Definitions for gratuitous

adjective

  1. given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
  2. being without apparent reason, cause, or justification:
  3. Law. given without receiving any return value.

Origin of gratuitous

1650-60; Latin grātuītus free, freely given, spontaneous, derivative of grātus thankful, received with thanks (for formation cf. fortuitous); see Examples for gratuitous

Arthur, I need not ask if you are innocent; it would be a gratuitous insult to you.

There was justified violence—going after al Qaeda—and then there was gratuitous violence.

His story is largely devoid of wanton violence and gratuitous sex.

That act, according to the canons of the church, must be gratuitous.

He scorned a dedication, that misnomer for gratuitous advertising.

The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy.

But God forbid a TV series premieres pushing out gratuitous emotion and gratuitous feeling.

Apparently, Mr. Galloway did not like this gratuitous suggestion.

And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

The Israeli soldiers, my age, sat impassively on a bench while babies cried and a man complained about gratuitous humiliation.

Word Value for gratuitous
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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