Word Finder - casual

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A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.

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A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.

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A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).

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

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A player of casual games.

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The devs dumbed the game down so the casuals could enjoy it.

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A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.

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A tramp.

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Happening by chance.

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They only had casual meetings.

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Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.

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The purchase of donuts was just a casual expense.

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Employed irregularly.

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He was just a casual worker.

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Careless.

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Happening or coming to pass without design.

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Informal, relaxed.

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Designed for informal or everyday use.

Her dress was casual but stunning.

An ant is easily recognized both by the casual observer and by the student of insects.

It looked cool and casual, but not provocative.

It is casual dress.

Was he shy, or was he simply a casual type of person?

You look nice – casual, but professional.

We'll go with casual elegance.

Public security is considerably improved, and regular brigandage (as distinct from casual robbery) hardly exists.

Even in casual amours these class laws were invariably observed, and the young man or woman who defied them was punished, he with death, she with spearing or beating.

He kept his voice casual.

Families are welcome and casual dress is preferred at the lodge.

Obviously he thought her manner of dress was too casual.

The vines are to a great extent still trained on trees or trellis-work, or allowed to grow among the rest of the vegetation in the most casual manner.

Go casual by applying Snatch all over the lid.

The party can be as formal or casual as you like.

Dean asked, trying to sound casual.

Winston's smile was a tad less casual.

She tried to cover her confusion with a wry smile and a casual question.

The restaurant's atmosphere is casual, and the menu is extensive and authentic.

Gerald was tall and lean, his gait casual.

This was a medley of social, moral and religious reflections interspersed with casual thoughts about persons, events and art.

He had already surrounded himself with that characteristically Petrine institution "the jolly company," or "the company," as it was generally called, consisting of all his numerous personal friends and casual acquaintances.

It has always been a question what it was that determined Grotius, when an exile in Paris in 1625, to that particular subject, and various explanations have been offered; among others a casual suggestion of Peiresc in a letter of early date.

Such was the casual origin of a book which long enjoyed such celebrity that it used to be said, with some exaggeration indeed, that it had founded a new science.

In the meantime knowledge on the subject is mingled with much that is obviously mythical and with gleanings from the casual references of travellers and authors.

The casual traveller in southern India constantly remarks the ruins of old dams, and the impression is conveyed that at one time, before British rule prevailed, the irrigation of the country was much more perfect than it is now.

The old church had, indeed, frequently rendered the state considerable financial aid, but such voluntary assistance was, from the nature of the case, casual and arbitrary.

Precisely the same process in a converse sense develops the casual raids of early times into a scheme of conquest.

The meanest of the fancies of the mind and the most casual of its whims he regarded as a better warrant for the being of God than any single object of nature.

This is the explanation of all the varied forms of riveted joints, which to casual observers often appear to be of a fanciful character.

The casual concept, as given by experience, expresses not a necessary objective order of things, but an ordered scheme of perception; it is subjective and cannot be postulated as a concrete law apart from consciousness.

Mrs Fry went first to Newgate in 1813, but only as a casual visitor.

Thus the intuition of the casual axiom is used to prove the existence of that which alone gives validity to intuitions.

Casual excavations are mentioned under the Spanish viceroys, but regular exploration only began.

The Talitridae, better known as sandhoppers, can forgo the briny shore and content themselves with the damp foliage of inland forests or casual humidity in the crater of an extinct volcano.

Conversely, the traces left by a casual set-back, such as famine, war, or an epidemic disease, remain long after it has been succeeded by a period of recuperation, and are to be found in the ageconstitution and the current vital statistics.

But most of these products of natural forces disappeared as suddenly as they arose; only in those rare cases where the several parts were found adapted to each other, and casual member fitted into casual member, did the complex structures thus formed last.

Thus from spontaneous aggregations of casual aggregates, which suited each other as if this had been intended, did the organic universe originally spring.

Such deposition of sacredness is but an aspect of the wider method that causes a ring-fence to be erected round the sacred to ward off casual trespassers at once in their own interest and to prevent contamination.

There is no mention, for example, of Hobbes throughout Spinoza's political writing, and only one casual reference to him in a letter, although the obligation of the Dutch to the English thinker lies on the surface.

Hume's casual allusion to "this famous atheist" and his "hideous hypothesis" is a fair specimen of the tone in which he is usually referred to; people talked about Spinoza, Lessing said, "as if he were a dead dog."

But the presidentship was too casual and anomalous an institution to Election of rally the nations round it permanently, and when Gustavus the tyranny of Christian II.

In all these particulars Zeno followed them, and the last is the more important, because, Chrysippus having adopted a new criterion of truth - a clear and distinct perception of sense - it is only from casual.

If a candidate is unseated a casual vacancy is created which has to be filled by a new election.

If a councillor is elected he vacates his office of councillor, and thus creates a casual vacancy in the council.

But when we meet with a casual remark as to the tendency of the Tasmanians to take wives from other tribes than their own, it seems likely that they had some custom of exogamy which the foreigners did not understand.

After a brief residence with his mother, who was needlessly alarmed at the idea of her son falling a victim to some casual coquette, Swift towards the close of 1689 entered upon an engagement as secretary to Sir William Temple, whose wife (Dorothy Osborne) was distantly related to Mrs Swift.

Daer-ceiles were also exposed to casual burdens, like that of lodging and feeding soldiers when in their district.

As to what was going on beyond it, we have but a few casual gleams of light, just enough to make the darkness visible, from writers such as the author of the life of St Germanus, Prosper Tiro, Procopius, and Gregory of Tours.

The belief being esoteric, a secret of the initiated, necessarily escaped casual inquirers.