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. appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; casual clothes; everyday clothes

    [ Syn: everyday , daily ]

  4. occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; seek help from casual passers-by; a casual meeting; a chance occurrence

    [ Syn: chance ]

  5. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the houses structural flaws; a passing glance; perfunctory courtesy

    [ Syn: cursory , passing , perfunctory ]

  6. occurring 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 ]

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