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Casual
| Casual Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Casual?
[adj] hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
[adj] marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner"
[adj] not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace"
[adj] suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
[adj] natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"
[adj] characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"
[adj] occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
[adj] without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; "a casual remark"; "information collected by casual methods and in their spare time"
[adj] employed in a specified capacity from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Casual: accidental |
careless |
chance(a) |
cursory |
easy |
effortless |
everyday |
fooling |
free-and-easy |
informal |
insouciant |
irregular |
light |
nonchalant |
occasional |
passing(a) |
perfunctory |
unconcerned |
unplanned
Related Terms | Find terms related to Casual: accessory |
accidental |
accidentally |
additional |
adscititious |
adventitious |
affable |
aimless |
airy |
aleatory |
almsman |
almswoman |
aloof |
amorphous |
apathetic |
appurtenant |
ascititious |
ataractic |
automatic |
auxiliary |
bankrupt |
beggar |
blanket |
blase |
blue-collar worker |
Bohemian |
breadwinner |
breezy |
bushfighter |
bushwhacker |
by-the-way |
capricious |
careless |
casual laborer |
casually |
causeless |
chance |
chancy |
charity case |
Charley |
circumstantial |
clear |
collateral |
common |
common laborer |
conditional |
contingent |
cool |
cordial |
cursory |
cushy |
day laborer |
degage |
designless |
destinal |
desultory |
detached |
devil-may-care |
dicey |
disarticulated |
discontinuous |
disinterested |
disjunct |
disordered |
dispassionate |
dispersed |
disproportionate |
disregardant |
disregardful |
down-and-out |
down-and-outer |
driftless |
dysteleological |
easy |
easy as pie |
easygoing |
effortless |
employee |
en deshabille |
erratic |
extemporaneous |
extempore |
extra |
facile |
factory worker |
familiar |
fatal |
fatidic |
fitful |
flippant |
fluky |
flunky |
folksy |
forgetful |
formless |
fortuitous |
fortuitously |
free and easy |
free lance |
free-lancer |
frivolous |
full-time worker |
general |
glib |
gracious |
gratuitous |
guerrilla |
gut |
hand |
haphazard |
happy-go-lucky |
hardcase |
haymish |
heedless |
hit-or-miss |
homely |
homey |
iffy |
ill-advised |
ill-considered |
ill-devised |
immethodical |
impromptu |
improvised |
imprudent |
impulsive |
in dishabille |
inadvertent |
inattentive |
inchoate |
incidental |
incoherent |
inconsiderable |
inconsiderate |
incurious |
indeliberate |
indeterminate |
indifferent |
indigent |
indiscreet |
indiscriminate |
indiscriminative |
industrial worker |
inessential |
inexcitable |
inexplicable |
informal |
insensitive |
insignificant |
insouciant |
involuntary |
irregular |
jobber |
jobholder |
laborer |
laboring man |
lackadaisical |
lazy |
light |
listless |
loose |
lounge |
low-pressure |
maquis |
maquisard |
meaningless |
menial |
Mickey Mouse |
migrant |
mindless |
minor |
misshapen |
moiler |
natural |
navvy |
negligent |
nonchalant |
nonessential |
nonjudgmental |
nonsystematic |
nonuniform |
nothing to it |
oblivious |
occasional |
odd |
off |
offhand |
offhanded |
office temporary |
orderless |
out-of-the-way |
painless |
parenthetical |
partisan |
part-time |
pauper |
penniless man |
perfunctory |
petty |
plain |
planless |
pococurante |
poor devil |
poor man |
poorling |
proletarian |
promiscuous |
provisional |
purposeless |
random |
reckless |
reflex |
reflexive |
regardless |
relaxed |
remote |
resistance |
resistance fighter |
respectless |
risky |
roustabout |
salaried worker |
secondary |
self-employed person |
senseless |
serendipitous |
servant |
shapeless |
shoestring |
side |
simple |
simple as ABC |
small-beer |
smooth |
snap |
sociable |
soft |
spare |
spasmodic |
spontaneous |
sporadic |
sporty |
starveling |
stiff |
stochastic |
straggling |
straggly |
straightforward |
stray |
subsidiary |
superadded |
superfluous |
supervenient |
supplemental |
supplementary |
systemless |
tactless |
temporary |
thoughtless |
toiler |
trained |
trivial |
turned-off |
unaccountable |
unadvised |
unaffected |
unanxious |
unarranged |
unassuming |
unburdensome |
uncalculated |
uncaused |
unceremonious |
uncertain |
unclassified |
uncomplicated |
unconcerned |
unconscious |
unconsidered |
unconstrained |
unconventional |
uncritical |
uncriticizing |
undeliberate |
undeliberated |
undemanding |
underground |
underground fighter |
undesigned |
undetermined |
undifferentiating |
undiplomatic |
undirected |
undiscreet |
undiscriminating |
undiscriminative |
unessential |
unexacting |
unexpected |
unfastidious |
unforeseeable |
unforeseen |
unfussy |
ungraded |
unheedful |
unheeding |
unimportant |
unintended |
unintentional |
uninterested |
unjoined |
unlooked-for |
unmeditated |
unmethodical |
unmeticulous |
unmindful |
unmotivated |
unofficial |
unordered |
unorganized |
unparticular |
unplanned |
unpredictable |
unpremeditated |
unprepared |
unready |
unselective |
unsolicitous |
unsorted |
unstudied |
unsubtle |
unsure |
unsymmetrical |
unsystematic |
untactful |
unthinking |
ununiform |
unwilled |
vague |
VC |
Vietcong |
wage earner |
wage slave |
wageworker |
wandering |
welfare client |
wholesale |
withdrawn |
worker |
workgirl |
workhand |
working girl |
workingman |
workingwoman |
workman
See Also |
Casual In Webster's Dictionary
\Cas"u*al\, a. [OE. casuel, F. casuel, fr. L. casualis,
fr. casus fall, accident, fr. cadere to fall. See {Case}.]
1. Happening or coming to pass without design, and without
being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming
by chance.
Casual breaks, in the general system. --W. Irving.
2. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as,
casual expenses.
A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture.
--Hawthorne.
Syn: Accidental; fortutious; incidental; occasional;
contingent; unforeseen. See {Accidental}.
\Cas"u*al\, n.
One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he
does not belong; a vagrant.
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