adjective
- Marked by blithe unconcern.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant
- Without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand.
- usage: "a casual remark"; "information collected by casual methods and in their spare time"
- Appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions.
- usage: "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
- Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance.
- usage: "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
- synonyms: chance
- Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough.
- usage: "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
- synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory
- Occurring from time to time.
- usage: "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"
- synonyms: occasional
- Characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility.
- usage: "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"
- synonyms: fooling
- Natural and unstudied.
- usage: "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"
- synonyms: free-and-easy
- Not showing effort or strain.
- usage: "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace"
- synonyms: effortless
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