casual

Plural: casuals

Adjective Satellite

• marked by blithe unconcern
  • "an ability to interest casual students"
  • "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"
• 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"
• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
  • "seek help from casual passers-by"
  • "a casual meeting"
• hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  • "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"
• occurring from time to time
  • "casual employment"
  • "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"
• characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
  • "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"
• natural and unstudied
  • "using their Christian names in a casual way"
• not showing effort or strain
  • "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"

Adj

• Happening by chance.
• Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
• Employed irregularly.
• Careless.
• Happening or coming to pass without design.
• Informal; relaxed.
• Designed for informal or everyday use.

Noun

• A person who works occasionally or informally.
• A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
• A worker who is doing a particular type of job temporarily, not as a lifetime career.
• A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
• A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
• One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.
• A player of casual games.
• A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
• A tramp.
• Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.

Examples

• He was just a casual worker.
• He’s not just a CASUAL player; he studies dictionaries for Words With Friends.
• pants in the casual wear collection
• The devs dumbed the game down so the casuals could enjoy it.
• The purchase of donuts was just a casual expense.
• They only had casual meetings.
• tone in casual interactions

Synonyms

chance, cursory, daily, effortless, everyday, fooling, free-and-easy, insouciant, nonchalant, occasional, passing, perfunctory, Perry boy, accidental, accidentary, ad hoc, ad lib, adventitious, airy, at ease, by accident, by the by, carefree, careless, cas, casual, causeless, chanceable, chill, colloquial, cool, devil-may-care, dresser#English:_undercover football hooligan, easy-breezy, easygoing, extemporal, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, extemporized, fortuitous, happy-go-lucky, impromptu, improvised, improviso, incidental, indifferent, informal, laid-back, leisurely, lighthearted, lippening, loose, mellow, off-the-cuff, offhand, pococurante, random, relaxed, serendipitous, serene, solute, spur-of-the-moment, unanxious, unbothered, unconcerned, unexpected, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unworried, wanton

Antonyms

ceremonial, expected, formal, inevitable, necessary, official, regulation, scheduled, strict

Related Words

case, casualty

Anagrams of casual