ca·su·al /ˈkæʒuəl/
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"
synset: casual, insouciant, nonchalant
2. without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; "a casual remark"; "information collected by casual methods and in their spare time"
synset: casual
3. appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
synset: casual, everyday, daily
4. occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
synset: casual, chance(a)
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"; "In his paper, he showed a very superficial understanding of psychoanalytic theory"
synset: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory, superficial
6. occurring on a temporary or irregular basis; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"
synset: casual, occasional
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"
synset: free-and-easy, casual
9. not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace"
synset: casual, effortless
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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