Gratuitous is defined as something given or granted with charge. A person may be gratuitous with their money and opt to give it to charity, with no recognition or repayment in kind. The word gratuitous may also be labeled with a certain act (e.g. gratuitous violence, profanity, etc.), which is doing something for the sake of doing something.
Gratuitous means unwarranted. It can also man done free of charge. Dinner was gratuitous with your room rental. Gratuitous advice is not always welcome.
There are no perfect rhymes for the word gratuitous.
The jury found the man's crime to be gratuitous.
Gratuitous Space Battles happened in 2009.
I chose not to view films featuring gratuitous violence!
There was gratuitous violence in the movie, which many people did not like.
Gratuitous Space Battles was created on 2009-11-17.
Gratuitous, in modern usage, often means 'unnecessary' although in the dictionary definition it probably means 'free.' When people refer to gratuitous violence or gratuitous sex they are usually criticizing violence or sex that didn't add anything to the plot but instead was just thrown in as a 'freebie.' You can visit the dictionary.com definition to learn additional information. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gratuitous
Gratuitous in this case means a request/reply that is not normally needed according to the ARP specification (RFC 826) but could be used in some cases. A gratuitous ARP request is an AddressResolutionProtocol request packet where the source and destination IP are both set to the IP of the machine issuing the packet and the destination MAC is the broadcast address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. Ordinarily, no reply packet will occur. A gratuitous ARP reply is a reply to which no request has been made.
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Example sentences for the adjective 'gratuitous':He uses gratuitous insults to cover his ignorance, which actually tends to highlight it.Once a week, Doctor Goode provides gratuitousservices at the free clinic.
free of charge