Casual
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
casual
adj 1: 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" [syn: {casual}, {insouciant}, {nonchalant}]
2: without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; "a
casual remark"; "information collected by casual methods and
in their spare time"
3: appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; "casual
clothes"; "everyday clothes" [syn: {casual}, {everyday},
{daily}]
4: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek help
from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance
occurrence" [syn: {casual}, {chance(a)}]
5: 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"
[syn: {casual}, {cursory}, {passing(a)}, {perfunctory}]
6: occurring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual
correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"
[syn: {casual}, {occasional}]
7: characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken
back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"
[syn: {fooling}, {casual}]
8: natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a
casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style" [syn: {free-
and-easy}, {casual}]
9: not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed
with casual mastery"; "careless grace" [syn: {casual},
{effortless}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Casual \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.
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Casual breaks, in the general system. --W. Irving.
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2. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as,
casual expenses.
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A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture.
--Hawthorne.
Syn: Accidental; fortutious; incidental; occasional;
contingent; unforeseen. See {Accidental}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
355 Moby Thesaurus words for "casual":
Bohemian, Charley, Mickey Mouse, VC, Vietcong, 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, breadwinner, breezy, bushfighter, bushwhacker,
by-the-way, capricious, careless, casual laborer, casually,
causeless, chance, chancy, charity case, 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, 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, part-time, partisan, 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, wage earner,
wage slave, wageworker, wandering, welfare client, wholesale,
withdrawn, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman,
workingwoman, workman
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