Casual

Definition: Casual

Casual

Adjective

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".

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. Suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes".

4. Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence".

5. Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy".

6. Employed in a specified capacity from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker".

7. Characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter".

8. Natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style".

9. Not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "casual" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Personal Care & Hotels

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Casual

Chance 2

Adjective: casual, fortuitous, accidental, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible; unintentional.

Friend

Acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding acquaintance; wellwisher.

Intention

Phrase: acierta errando; dextro tempore; "fearful concatenation of circumstances"; "fortuitous combination of circumstances"; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir; "the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances"; "the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms"; "God does not play dice with the universe".

Uncertainty

Adjective: uncertain; casual; random; (aimless); changeable.

Crosswords: Casual

Portuguese (blind, bye, casual, chance, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, odd, random, sporadic, undesigned), Spanish (accidental, casual, chance, occasional, odd, random).

fly casual. (Episode VI: Return of the Jedi; writing credit: Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas.)

No! Just casual dinner If we happen to have sex afterwards so be it (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford)

A casual shoe for yachting (PCU; writing credit: Adam Leff; Zak Penn)

I do not. He's only a casual acquaintance (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

Well, to the casual observer, it would appear that you're trying to make your friend Xander jealous or even the score or something (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I was never satisfied with casual encounters (Cherish; performing artist: Madonna)

And I'm in no hurry to be casual (I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Casual Relations (1973)

A Casual Affair (1969)

Jazz Casual (1959)

Dead Casual (2002)

The Casual Observer (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Casual Male Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Casual Sportswear in Germany: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Sports and Casual Wear in Sweden: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Men's Casual Wear in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Women’s Outwear Casual Dresses (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Casual Day Has Gone Too Far: A Dilbert Book (Adams, Scott, Dilbert Book.) (reference)

• Sweet Maria's Cake Kitchen: Casual and Creative Recipes for Layer, Loaf, and Bundt Cakes (reference)

• The New Professional Image: From Business Casual to the Ultimate Power Look (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Casual Living (reference)

• Peclers: Casual (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Casual Sex? (reference)

• Jazz Casual DVD - Vocals Vol. 1 (Carmen McRae, Mel Torme, Jimmy Rushing) (reference)

• Jazz Casual DVD (Count Basie, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie) (reference)

• Jazz Casual - Dave Brubeck (reference)

• Jazz Casual - Dizzy Gillespie (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Evening of Casual Virtuosit (reference)

• Casual Look (reference)

• Dress Casual (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Minolta Dimage X Casual Digital Camera Case (reference)

• Gateway 400 Series Notebook + Casual Carrying Case(2.0GHz Pentium 4, 256 MB RAM, 40GB hard drive) (reference)

• Samsonite Business Casual Leather Case (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 6, Bordeaux, France. : Casual office. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Warning casual sex may be hazardous to your health. : My new warning label / Dick Locher. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Don't be a casualty of casual sex. : why take chances? protect yourself. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Keep safe from AIDS : keep away from casual sex. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A casual encounter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Some casual cartoonlets. Credit: Library of Congress.

Guild House, business on Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts. Casual shoes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Indeed there were no casual observers in the Old Pink Dog Bar on the lower South Side of Han Dold City because it wasn't the sort of place you could afford to do things casually in if you wanted to stay alive

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

There is no evidence that CJD is contagious through casual contact with a CJD patient. (references)

CJD cannot be transmitted through the air or through touching or most other forms of casual contact. (references)

The virus cannot be spread through casual contact (including skin-to-skin contact without exchange of body fluids). (references)

Business

The needs are tremendous, which is obvious to even casual observers. (references)

The U.S. casual dress code for Fridays in the office is becoming more common. (references)

Franchisers of apparel, mainly casual and sportswear may study Argentina and the potential it has to offer. (references)

Economic History

Australia

The union movement has initiated a campaign to improve the rights of casual workers. (references)

Japan

American fashion, particularly casual clothes, continues to hold wide appeal in Japan. (references)

Seychelles

Seychelles is extremely informal and casual dress is the norm even at the most senior levels. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

Outside the capital, dress is slightly more casual. (references)

Mexico

Along with this formality is an emphasis on appearances -- avoid casual dress. (references)

Bulgaria

Businesspeople may go without a jacket or tie or wear casual clothes in summer. (references)

Worker Rights

Madagascar

In urban areas, many children work as petty traders, casual transport workers, and beggars. (references)

Gabon

Employers frequently require longer hours of work from noncitizen Africans and pay them less, often hiring on a short-term, casual basis in order to avoid paying taxes, social security contributions, and other benefits. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Casual

Expressions using "casual": casual acquaintance ♦ casual clothes ♦ casual event ♦ casual glance ♦ casual labor ♦ casual laborer ♦ casual labourer ♦ casual meeting ♦ casual poor ♦ casual profits ♦ casual remark ♦ casual shirt ♦ casual shoes ♦ casual sportsman ♦ casual wear ♦ casual work ♦ casual worker ♦ student with casual job ♦ undeclared casual work. Additional references.

Beginning with "casual": casual-looking.

Ending with "casual": combat-casual, mono-casual, smart-casual, studiedly-casual.

Containing "casual": kind-of-casual-but-vamp.

Albanian

rastësor (episodic, occasional), i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i rastit (adventitious, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incident, incidental, makeshift, occasional, odd, passing, random, scratch, stray, transient), i rastësishëm (accidental, chanceful, coincidental, desultory, fortuitous, incident, incidental, lucky, odd, random, sporadic). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متقطع (broken, choppy, cut off, disconnected, discontinuous, fitful, fretful, intermission, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, occasional, remittent, spasmodic, sporadic, torn apart, uneven), ‏غير نظامي (infrequent, irregular), ‏غير رسمي (familiar, informal, off the record, unceremonious, unofficial), ‏عفوي (glib, spontaneous, unprompted, unrestrained), ‏عامل بصورة متقطعة, ‏عرضي (accidental, adventitious, circumstantial, episodic, extraneous, extrinsic, incident, incidental, occasional, odd, passing, symptomatic, transverse, venial), ‏طارئ (adventitious, contingency, emergency, fortuitous, imperious, incidental, pressing), ‏العامل الانظامي, ‏بالصدفة (accidentally, fortuitously, haply, indiscriminate, passing, random). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скитник (bum, derelict, drifter, erratic, floater, hobo, itinerant, knockabout, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), временен работник (floater), небрежен (careless, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), непредвиден (contingent, fortuitous, unanticipated, uncontemplated, undesigned, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unthought of), непреднамерен (inadvertent, undesigned, unmeant, unpremeditated, unstudied, unwitting), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo). (various references)

Chinese 

隨便 (as one pleases, as one wishes), 偶然 (Accidental, Adventitious, Casualness). (various references)

Czech

povrchní (airy, cheap, desultory, dollish, facile, frivolous, lip-deep, perfunctory, scrappy, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, superficial), příležitostný (occasional, odd), nonšalantní (negligent, nonchalant), neoèekávaný (sudden, surprise, unexpected, unhoped-for, unlooked for), nenucený (easy, effortless, glib, informal, nonchalant, relaxed, spontaneous, throwaway, unceremonious, unconstrained, unstudied), neformální (informal, laid back, unceremonious), nedbalý (careless, lax, neglectful, negligent, offhand, remiss, slack, sloppy, slovenly, unmindful), náhodný (accidental, adventitious, arbitrary, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, incidental, passing, random, stray), lhostejný (apathetic, cold, coldly, detached, impassive, impervious, indifferent, insensible, lackadaisical, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, unconcerned, uninterested, unsympathetic), letmý (cursorial, cursory, fleeting, flying, hurried, quick), ledabylý (careless, cavalier, lax, remiss, slapdash, untidy), ležérní (easygoing, lax), laxní (dilatory, flabby, half hearted, lax, slack), každodenní (daily, diurnal, everyday, quotidian, weekly, workaday). (various references)

Dutch

dagelijkse omgang met HIV-geïnfecteerden (casual contact with HIV-infected people). (various references)

Farsi 

غیرمهم (Small, Unessential, Unimportant), غیرجدی , اتفاقی (Accident, Chance, Chanceful, Chancy, Chromatic, Haphazard). (various references)

Finnish

ylimalkainen (approximate, general, haphazard, rough), tilapäinen (occasional, provisional, temporary), satunnainen (accidental, chance, fortuitous, temporary). (various references)

French

accidentel. (various references)

German

beiläufig (casually, incidental, nearby, parenthetically, passing), zufällig (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, by any chance, by chance, by hazard, casually, chance, coincidental, coincidentally, fortuitous, fortuitously, haphazard, incidental, incidentally, on occasion, perchance, perchancely, random, stochastic), gelegentlich (casually, eventually, incidental, now and again, now and then, occasional, occasionally, once in a while, some time, sporadic). (various references)

Greek 

ξέγνοιαστος (carefree, easy going), ανέμελοσ (carefree, debonair, slap happy), ανεπίσημος (informal), αφρόντιστοσ (neglected, uncared for), τυχαίοσ (accidental, adventitious, chance, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, random, scratch, stray). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקרי (accidental, chance, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, random, stray), של יום יום, אגבי (accidental), ארעי (accidental, ephemeral, episodic, impermanent, interim, occasional, pro tempore, provisional, temporary), כלאחר יד (by the way, casually, incidentally, offhand, perfunctory). (various references)

Hungarian

rendszertelen (desultory, inordinate, irregular, random, unsystematic), alkalmi (ad hoc, extemporal, extemporaneous, occasional, offbeat, stray, topical). (various references)

Indonesian

kebetulan (accidental, by accident, by chance, fit, happen to, incidental, ocassional). (various references)

Italian

occasionale (casually, chance, fortuitous, occasional, occasionally, odd, random), casuale (accidental, chance, coincidental, factitive, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, odd, passing, random, stray), accidentale (accidental, adventitious, chance, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, inessential, secondary, unessential). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

身軽 (agile, carefree, light, nimble), 通り一遍 (perfunctory), 軽快 (light, nimble, rhythmical), 行きずり (passing), 行き摺り (passing), 略式　, 思いがけない (unexpected), 思い掛けない (unexpected), 何気無い (unconcerned), 何気ない (unconcerned), 偶発的 (accidental, incidental, occasional), カシミア糸 (cascade, cashew nuts, cashmere, cashmere yarn, casino, casket, castanets, caster, casual look, casual water, casual wear, custard pudding, custom, custom IC, customize, customized car, customized communication, customizer, custom-made, customs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもいがけない (unexpected), なにげない (unconcerned), ぐうはつてき (accidental, incidental, occasional), ゆきずり (passing), カジュアル , けいかい (admonition, light, nimble, rhythmical, vigilance, warning), みがる (agile, carefree, light, nimble), とおりいっぺん (perfunctory). (various references)

Korean 

일시 (Episodic, temporal, transient). (various references)

Manx

taghyrtagh (accidental, adventitious, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous, incidental), neuchooishagh (offhand, perfunctory). (various references)

Norwegian

tilfeldig (fortuitous, haphazard, incidental). (various references)

Pig Latin

asualcay.(various references)

Portuguese

casual (blind, bye, chance, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, occasional, odd, sporadic, undesigned), pobre acidental, imprevidente (improvident, inadvertent, thoughtless, unwary), fortuito (chance, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, random), eventual (contingent, eventual), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, untidy, unwary), descontraído (laid-back, relaxed), biscateiro, acidental (accidental, adventitious, bye, chance, contingent, haphazard, incidental, occasional, odd, random, sporadic, undesigned). (various references)

Romanian

cazual (accidental, fortuitous), vizoriu, temporar (acting, fleeting, makeshift, pro tempore, provisional, provisionally, provisory, temporarily, temporary), ocazional (accidental, casually, circumstantial, fugitive, haphazard, incidental, infrequent, occasional, occasionally), nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), neoficial (casually, informal, officious, officiously, unofficial), neglijent (careless, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, untidy, unwary), eventual (accidental, contingent, eventual, eventually, possible, possibly, uncertain), accidental (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, arbitrary, broken, casually, chance, contingent, fortuitous, fortuitously, hurt, incidental, occasional, precarious, random, stray), întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, chance, circumstantial, contingent, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, odd, random, transient). (various references)

Russian 

случайный (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arbitrary, chance, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extemporaneous, extemporary, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, incidental, jobbing, lucky, occasional, odd, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzgredan (accessary, accessory, incidental, marginal), neusiljen (debonair, natural, unaffected, unconstrained, unlabored, unlaboured), nemaran (careless, debonair, delinquent, devil may care, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slack, slipshod, sloppy), neformalan (informal). (various references)

Spanish

casual (accidental, chance, occasional, odd, random). (various references)

Swedish

tillfällig (accidental, adventitious, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extraordinary, fortuitous, incidental, interim, momentary, occasional, odd, provisional, stopgap, temporary). (various references)

Turkish

yoksul kimse (have not), tesadüfen olan, sıradan (average, banal, blah, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hack, hackneyed, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, prosaic, quotidian, regular, routine, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional, workaday), rastlantı eseri (fortuitously), kaçamak (casually, escapade, evasion, evasive, furtive, hanky panky, loophole, run, running, salvo, shift, stealthy, subterfuge, surreptitious), gelişigüzel (at haphazard, at random, by chance, by fits and starts, cursory, desultory, excursive, go-as-you-please, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, promiscuous, random, scratch, scratchy), geçici işçi (casual laborer, jobber), geçici (ad interim, Band aid, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, fugacious, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory, volatile), gündelikçi (casual labor, casual laborer, peon), gündelik giysi (casual wear, leisure wear), gündelik ayakkabı, gündelik (casually, daily, daily fee, day-to-day money, everyday, leisure, per diem, quotidian, ready, workaday), doğada düzenli olarak görülmeyen, üstünkörü (casually, cursory, glib, loose, perfunctory, scratchy, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, trifling). (various references)

Turkmen 

tцtдnleяin (accidental, by chance), tцtдnden (by accident). (various references)

Ukrainian

тимчасовий робітник (temporary), тимчасовий (ambulatory, caducous, extempore, improvised, interim, jury, makeshift, provisional, provisory, seasonal, stopgap, temporal, temporary), військовослужбовець у резерві, випадковий клієнт, випадковий відвідувач, випадковий покупець, випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated), несерйозний (lightweight, superficial, windy), несподіванний, нерегулярний (irregular, non-recurring, occasional, odd, snatchy, spasmodic, uneven), ненавмисний (extemporary, inadvertent, involuntary, purposeless, undesigned, unintentional, unpremeditated), неплановий, недбалий (careless, dishonest, heedless, inattentive, lax, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, oscitant, overly, slovenly, unguarded). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cẩu thả; tuỳ tiện không đều, vô tình (bloodless, heartless, indeliberate, promiscuous, unconcerned, unsympathetic, untouched), thất thường (arbitrary, capricious, erratic, erratically, fit, start), thường vô ý tứ, tình cờ (accidental, accidentally, chance, contingent, en passant, fortuitous, incidental, incidentally, passing), ngẫu nhiên (accidentally, adventitious, chance, contingent, fortuitous, haply, incidental, incidentally, perchance, promiscuous), lúc có lúc không (intermittent, intermittingly), không trịnh trọng, bất chợt (bounce, promiscuous), bình thường (common, ordinary, trivial). (various references)

casus, fortuito, fortuitus. (various references)

casualis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "casual": casually, casualness, casualnesses, casuals, casualties, casualty. (additional references)

Words ending with "casual": noncasual, ultracasual. (additional references)

Words containing "casual": decasualization, decasualizations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Casual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Basualdo, Casal, Casale, casea, Casell, casualt, casuar, casural, Caswall, caural, causae, causaul, causual, Cazal, Cazale, clausula, cuspal, Fasquel, Kassala, Kassmaul, Kasuga, Kasule, Kasuma, Katsuya, Kausel, Kazuma, Pasewalk, Pasqual, Pasquali, pasquil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: causal.

-1 letter: cauls.

-2 letters: aals, alas, casa, caul, lacs, saul.

-3 letters: aal, aas, ala, als, lac, las, sac, sal, sau.

-4 letters: aa, al, as, la, us.

+1 letter: accusal, calamus, canulas, casuals, causals, clausal, faucals, lacunas, maculas, scapula, vascula.

+2 letters: acaulose, acaulous, accruals, accusals, aciculas, caesural, calathus, cannulas, capsular, caraculs, carousal, casually, casualty, causable, causally, claustra, labrusca, lacunars, saccular, scapulae, scapular, scapulas, vascular.

+3 letters: aspectual, auriculas, avascular, backhauls, caladiums, calcaneus, calctufas, canulates, carousals, catapults, causalgia, causalgic, causality, claustral, coagulase, dulcianas, eulachans, glaucomas, guaiacols, jaculates, maculates, noncasual, noncausal, sacculate, salacious, scapulars, simulacra, subapical.