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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Casual \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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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: 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: suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday
clothes" [syn: everyday]
4: 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" [syn: accidental, 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: cursory, passing(a), perfunctory]
6: employed in a specified capacity from time to time; "casual
employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former
teacher"; "an occasional worker" [syn: occasional]
7: characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken
back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling
matter" [syn: fooling]
8: natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a
casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style" [syn: free-and-easy]
9: not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed
with casual mastery"; "careless grace" [syn: effortless]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
CASUAL. What happens fortuitously what is accidental as, the casual
revenue's of the government, are those which are contingent or uncertain.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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