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Casual   /kˈæʒəwəl/  /kˈæʒwəl/   Listen
Casual

adjective
1.
Marked by blithe unconcern.  Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant.  "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"
2.
Without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand.  "Information collected by casual methods and in their spare time"
3.
Appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions.  Synonyms: daily, everyday.  "Everyday clothes"
4.
Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance.  Synonym: chance.  "A casual meeting" , "A chance occurrence"
5.
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough.  Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory.  "A passing glance" , "Perfunctory courtesy"
6.
Occurring from time to time.  Synonym: occasional.  "A casual correspondence with a former teacher" , "An occasional worker"
7.
Characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility.  Synonym: fooling.
8.
Natural and unstudied.  Synonym: free-and-easy.  "Lectured in a free-and-easy style"
9.
Not showing effort or strain.  Synonym: effortless.  "Careless grace"



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"Casual" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sound principles of doing all things thoroughly, poured out a liberal dose of raw, red liquor. Then, with his fingers clamped tightly about the bottom of the glass, the better to conceal its contents from any casual but inquisitive passer-by, he quickly filled it with soda and placed it before Blinky, accompanying the action with ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance
... far-seeing as a man all his life acquainted with business. Mr. Murray had been a loser in the mines himself, but to a comparatively slight extent, and as he was an exceedingly rich man, he only regarded the matter as one of the casual losses incurred in business. But his old friend's losses troubled him deeply, and he resolved to do everything in his power to repair the effects of his ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... these too come little trivial things Tossed from the deeps by the same casual hand; A faint sea flower, dragged from the lowest sand, That will not undulate its luminous wings In the slow tides again, lies dead and swings Along the muddy ripples to ...
— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various
... in the Casual Ward," was the heading of an article in the D.T. last Friday, and it turned out to be all about the Richie ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 19, 1892 • Various
... assured that his broken trunk could not be mended till the day after to-morrow; he had quite forgotten about the festas and the sympathy. That night the piazza on which he lodged seemed full of snow to the casual glance he gave it; then he saw that it was the white Italian moonlight, which he had ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells


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