Usually means: Unnecessary and unwarranted; excessively given.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word gratuitous:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gratuitous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gratuitous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gratuitous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gratuitous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gratuitous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gratuitous, gratuitous: Wordnik
  7. gratuitous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gratuitous: Wiktionary
  9. gratuitous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gratuitous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gratuitous: Dictionary.com
  12. gratuitous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. gratuitous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Gratuitous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gratuitous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gratuitous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gratuitous: Rhymezone
  18. gratuitous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gratuitous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. gratuitous: Free Dictionary
  21. gratuitous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. gratuitous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. gratuitous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. gratuitous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gratuitous: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. gratuitous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gratuitous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gratuitous: A Word A Day

(Note: See gratuitously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Given freely; unearned.
adjective:  Unjustified or unnecessary; not called for by the circumstances.

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