Meanings
- not comparableFree: without charge.
Really syncophant^([sic]) stuff, but it may help. It's gratis in any case.
2010 September 27, Ann Charters, Samuel Charters, quoting John Clellon Holmes, Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation, →ISBN, page 1621 more example
The gratis soft drink mixers on the counter, the free jukebox in the lounge – loaded with classic 45s – the shelves piled high with books to borrow and read, and the vintage 1960s pie-warmer is the very spirit of the Laurieston and the Clancy family.
2023 October 22, Norry Wilson, “The best bar none? Why nothing has to change at the city’s legendary Laurieston”, in The Herald on Sunday, Glasgow: Newsquest, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 2Synonyms: costless, feeless, free of charge, free as in beer, complimentary, costless, chargeless, free · Antonyms: see at nonfree
- not comparableIn a free way: without charge.
Reaſon, you roague, reaſon: thinkſt thou Ile endanger my soule, gratis?
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 451 more example
I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for thee.
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]Synonyms: costlessly, free of charge
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveFree: without charge.
adverbIn a free way: without charge.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecosting nothing
adverbwithout charge
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷerH-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷr̥Htós
- Proto-Italic*gʷrātos
- Latingrātus
- Latingrātiīs
- Latingrātīs
- Englishgratis
Borrowed from Latin grātīs.
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Spanish gratis, gratisdato
- gratisfree of charge
- gratisdatofree of charge
- gratiñánfree of charge
- graterolafree of charge
- gratarolafree of charge
- gratisfree, without charge
- de gratisfree, without charge
- de a gratisfree, without charge
- gratis et amorefree, without charge
- gratismente de graciafree, without charge
- gratiñánfree, without charge
- gratarolafree, without charge
- graterolafree, without charge
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Cite this entry
gratis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gratis
“gratis.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gratis. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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