What are the antonyms for GRATUITOUS?
- needed, warranted, reasonable, all-important, Grounded, crucial, expensive, necessary, high, deserved, onerous, urgent, costly, essential, justified, important, imperative, required, called-for, pressing, proven, vital, merited, needful, dear, indispensable.
Synonyms for GRATUITOUS
- excess,
- arbitrary,
- supplemental,
- whiteness,
- unlooked-for,
- without consideration,
- money,
- unprovoked,
- spasmodic,
- impertinent,
- unforced,
- saucy,
- untempered,
- crusty,
- amorphous,
- providential,
- discontinuous,
- chimerical,
- undeserved,
- irrelevant,
- nonsystematic,
- disjunct,
- uncorroborated,
- over-abundant,
- self-acting,
- commemorative,
- complacent,
- as a perk,
- formless,
- purposeless,
- gratuitous,
- freest,
- hypothetical,
- nonessential,
- intemperate,
- preventable,
- willing,
- straggling,
- unindemnified,
- verbose,
- unneeded,
- fresh,
- ungrounded,
- journalist,
- flippant,
- tautologic,
- free of cost,
- Expenseless,
- abundant,
- pert,
- honorary,
- destitute,
- unprescribed,
- hit-or-miss,
- Supererogative,
- spare,
- annotate,
- Volunteered,
- optional,
- indefensible,
- nonmandatory,
- for love,
- devoid,
- useless,
- Unrepaid,
- man,
- adscititious,
- unmeasurable,
- unfair,
- educator,
- unmethodical,
- planless,
- non-germane,
- uncalled-for,
- haphazard,
- Offered,
- designate,
- Supposing,
- nominal,
- Unarranged,
- Foundationless,
- uncritical,
- contemptuous,
- pleonastic,
- illusory,
- loose,
- unasked-for,
- meaningless,
- inessential,
- uninfluenced,
- overindulgent,
- suppositional,
- for free,
- off-base,
- convey,
- hake,
- frank,
- unrequested,
- inchoate,
- franco,
- unfounded,
- bluff,
- willful,
- costless,
- immoderate,
- pants,
- unasked,
- evitable,
- brutish,
- tenuous,
- unconnected,
- nonuniform,
- bestowed,
- Non-essential,
- repetitious,
- needless,
- free-willed,
- de trop,
- inordinate,
- uncoerced,
- designer,
- having a killer instinct,
- beside the point,
- sporadic,
- buckshee,
- Unbesought,
- outrageous,
- disordered,
- impudent,
- demonstrate,
- Gally,
- corbina,
- malevolent,
- architect,
- presumptive,
- unbidden,
- enlighten,
- eleemosynary,
- surplus,
- not asked,
- adventitious,
- wanton,
- out of place,
- straggly,
- uncompensated,
- unwanted,
- unconscionable,
- in vain,
- conjectural,
- improper,
- discretionary,
- ironfisted,
- independent,
- promiscuous,
- vicious,
- suppositious,
- explain,
- senseless,
- exorbitant,
- biggety,
- overabundant,
- irrational,
- explicate,
- inapt,
- asset,
- secondary,
- causeless,
- COMP,
- define,
- slipshod,
- Malapert,
- barren,
- extraneous,
- ungraded,
- paleness,
- alien,
- unjustifiable,
- accessory,
- voluntary,
- groundless,
- disrespectful,
- Allowed,
- nitwitted,
- without compulsion,
- autonomous,
- illogical,
- thriftless,
- inconsequential,
- gratuitously,
- Orderless,
- assumed,
- writer,
- for the asking,
- indiscriminate,
- sassy,
- chutzpadik,
- putative,
- unworthy,
- expletive,
- impulsive,
- unsymmetrical,
- subsidiary,
- unsound,
- brash,
- fitful,
- nervy,
- titular,
- pedagogue,
- reasonless,
- intended,
- Self-active,
- inapposite,
- unconditioned,
- wise-ass,
- imaginary,
- unsought,
- Whites,
- wordy,
- beside point,
- unpressured,
- smart-alecky,
- will,
- unclassified,
- unjust,
- granted,
- unsupportable,
- dispensable,
- mindless,
- detached,
- motiveless,
- unsalaried,
- supposititious,
- pleasure,
- remiss,
- off-the-wall,
- of own accord,
- liberal,
- flip,
- clarify,
- interpret,
- for nothing,
- costing nothing,
- unrequited,
- shapeless,
- untaxed,
- solve,
- pointless,
- speculative,
- unconditional,
- Designful,
- unfold,
- rude,
- scot-free,
- disproportionate,
- superfluous,
- Mooted,
- Contributed,
- capricious,
- author,
- hot and cold,
- kingfish,
- Purposed,
- charitable,
- Systemless,
- describe,
- given,
- uncalled for,
- peripheral,
- on the cuff,
- unrelated,
- freely given,
- tautological,
- complacency,
- nonsymmetrical,
- undirected,
- excessive,
- unconfirmed,
- freewilled,
- iterative,
- wicked,
- supposable,
- piece,
- irregular,
- malapropos,
- Immethodical,
- like a bull in a china shop,
- adulatory,
- residuary,
- unwelcome,
- Iron-fisted,
- compliance,
- complimentary,
- resolve,
- random,
- inhumane,
- elective,
- no charge,
- unsupported,
- erratic,
- mendacious,
- Postulatory,
- derisive,
- undue,
- Vouchsafed,
- on the house,
- unsolicited,
- unorganized,
- whiting,
- Unjoined,
- without basis,
- extra,
- ask,
- Unbought,
- expendable,
- avoidable,
- violent,
- of one accord,
- discretional,
- unremunerated,
- unimportant,
- superabundant,
- denote,
- rent-free,
- Accorded,
- uncompelled,
- insignificant,
- without prompting,
- Proffered,
- unwarrantable,
- lackadaisical,
- baseless,
- Tautologous,
- smart,
- mean machine,
- unproven,
- scotfree,
- decipher,
- unrecompensed,
- avertable,
- out of it,
- on someone,
- aimless,
- colour,
- free ride,
- unmerited,
- unpaid,
- copious,
- incoherent,
- unwarranted,
- unrewarded,
- volunteer,
- spontaneous,
- Unreasoned,
- misshapen,
- frivolous,
- innocent,
- in excess,
- instinctive,
- gratis,
- unessential,
- as a gift,
- cheeky,
- uninvited,
- color,
- vague,
- without cause,
- bottomless,
- merciless,
- person,
- cruel,
- overflowing,
- unreasonable,
- noncompulsory,
- subordinate,
- free of charge,
- perfunctory,
- inapplicable,
- Self-determining,
- supererogatory,
- inexcusable,
- unrequired,
- expound,
- theoretical,
- self-determined,
- non-compulsory,
- compliments of the house,
- expand,
- unrestrained,
- without charge,
- unpaid for,
- of one's own accord,
- witting,
- clear,
- free will,
- discolor,
- Undemanded,
- careless,
- unsorted,
- wandering,
- illuminate,
- inappropriate,
- evil,
- without foundation,
- unjustified,
- Suppositive,
- unordered,
- casual,
- intuitive,
- Chargeless,
- superfluent,
- smart-ass,
- reiterative,
- academic,
- dispersed,
- unnecessary,
- Hazarded,
- flimsy,
- additional,
- not literal,
- impart,
- disarticulated,
- reveal,
- desultory,
- redundant,
- unsystematic,
- free,
- malicious,
- uncurbed,
- freebie,
- unprompted,
- extravagant,
- prolix.
Usage Examples for GRATUITOUS
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The outlined schedule of habits, including some denials and some gratuitous activity, kept her in prime condition- in fact, in improving condition, for six highly satisfactory months. - "Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness" by Robert S. Carroll
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Smith was a sociable and rather a clever man, but according to Leech, occasionally so economical that he would now and then try to get a little gratuitous work out of him. - "John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1" by William Powell Frith
