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Synonyms:
- copious, uncalled-for, remiss, supererogative, honorary, overabundant, extravagant, outrageous, superabundant, money, casual, unwarranted, costless, free, redundant, surplus, inessential, perfunctory, immoderate, overindulgent, unneeded, like a bull in a china shop, titular, overflowing, complacent, nonessential, complimentary, unmerited, lackadaisical, excessive, unessential, commemorative, unpaid, needless, unnecessary, careless, superfluous, necessary, gratis, nominal, wanton, supererogatory, complacency, slipshod, exorbitant, dispensable
Examples:
- - We did not demand too much social information of him; all the more we valued the gratuitous fact that the Neapolitan nobles were now rather poor, because they preferred a life of pleasure to a life of business. - "Roman Holidays and Others", W. D. Howells
- - But Mr. Tryan was not cast in the mould of the gratuitous martyr. - "Scenes of Clerical Life", George Eliot
- - Sometimes the Emperor made presents to the princes and princesses of his family, of which I was nearly always the bearer; and I can assert that with two or three rare exceptions this duty was perfectly gratuitous, a circumstance which I recall here simply as a recollection. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
