gratuitously
adjectiveHow to pronounce gratuitously:
Definition of gratuitously:
- gratuitously (adjective):
- not called for by the circumstances not necessary, appropriate, or justified unwarranted
Synonyms for gratuitously:
complimentary
costless
discretionary
donated
free
gratis
nominal
on the house
optional
voluntary
Antonyms for gratuitously:
for a fee
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- surmountable
- memorial
- advertisement
- etcetera
- policewoman
- intersected
- overreact
- syllabary
- mischievousness
- convalescing
- bilabial
- inexpensive
- connubial
- extirpation
- practically
- unreadable
- underwhelming
- presumably
- democracy
- omnipresent
- irascible
- inhabitant
- innocuous
- adulation
- tergiversate
- nonsensical
- heretical
- intricacy
- misadventured
- benevolent
- disyllabic
- delicacy
- expectantly
- courageousness
- accompanied
- austerity
- silhouetted
- unbearably
- conceivably
- bludgeoning
- abominate
- brilliantly
- resignedly
- pacifying
- alphabetic
- technically
- successively
- distinctively
- ailurophile
- desperately
- … more
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