casual : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: casual	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for casual
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
casual adj 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" Synonym(s): casual, insouciant, nonchalant 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"; "everyday clothes" Synonym(s): casual, everyday, daily occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence" Synonym(s): casual, chance(a) 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" Synonym(s): casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory occurring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker" Synonym(s): casual, occasional characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter" Synonym(s): fooling, casual natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style" Synonym(s): free- and-easy, casual not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace" Synonym(s): casual, effortless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Casual \Cas"ual\, 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. --W. Irving. 2. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. --Hawthorne. Syn: Accidental; fortutious; incidental; occasional; contingent; unforeseen. See {Accidental}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Casual \Cas"u*al\, n. One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.