casual

[ca·su·al]

"Oh, no, are you kidding me? He's not my boyfriend, we're just in a casual relationship," means that our relationship lacks serious intent or commitment.

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Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
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 teasi

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not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace"

Adjective S.
suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"

Adjective S.
natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"

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

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; "a casual remark"; "information collected by casual methods and in their spare time"

Adjective S.
employed in a specified capacity from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"


a.
Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.

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Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.

n.
One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.


Casual

Cas"u*al , a. [OE. casuel, F. casuel, fr. L. casualis, fr. casus fall, accident, fr. cadere to fall. See Case.] 1. Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
Casual breaks, in the general system.
2. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.
A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture.
Syn. -- Accidental; fortutious; incidental; occasional; contingent; unforeseen. See Accidental.

Casual

Cas"u*al, n. One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.

One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

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Usage Examples

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.

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Other Usage Examples

I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

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