casual

Meanings

Adjective

• 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 worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
• 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 does not belong; a vagrant.
• A player of casual games.
• A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
• A tramp.

Related

Similar words

• unexpected
• informal

Opposite words

• inevitable, necessary
• expected, scheduled
• ceremonial, formal

Origin

• From Middle French casuel, from Late Latin cāsuālis ("happening by chance"), from Latin cāsus ("event") (English case), from cadere (whence English cadence).