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 ]
without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; a casual remark; information collected by casual methods and in their spare time'
appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; casual clothes; everyday clothes
occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; seek help from casual passers-by; a casual meeting; a chance occurrence
[ Syn: chance ]
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 ]
occurring from time to time; casual employment; a casual correspondence with a former teacher; an occasional worker
[ Syn: occasional ]
characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter
[ Syn: fooling ]
natural and unstudied; using their Christian names in a casual way; lectured in a free-and-easy style
[ Syn: free-and-easy ]
not showing effort or strain; a difficult feat performed with casual mastery; careless grace
[ Syn: effortless ]