Adjective: gratuitous gru't(y)oo-i-tus
- Costing nothing
"The company offered gratuitous shipping on all orders";
- complimentary, costless, free, gratis, courtesy
- Unnecessary and unwarranted
"a strikers' tent camp … was burned with gratuitous loss of life";
- needless, uncalled-for
- Without cause
"a gratuitous insult"
See also: unmerited, unnecessary, unneeded, unpaid
Encyclopedia: Gratuitous