Definitions for casual

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casual cas·u·al

Spelling: [kazh-oo-uh l]

IPA: /ˈkæʒ u əl/

Casual is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in casual (aaclsu).

Definitions for casual

noun

1. a worker employed only irregularly.
2. a soldier temporarily at a station or other place of duty, and usually en route to another station.
3. Usually Disparaging. a person who plays video games that do not require much skill or time commitment.

adjective

1. happening by chance; fortuitous:
2. without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand; passing:
3. seeming or tending to be indifferent to what is happening; apathetic; unconcerned:
4. without emotional intimacy or commitment:
5. appropriate for wear or use on informal occasions; not dressy:
6. irregular; occasional:
7. accidental:
8. noting or relating to video games that do not require much skill or time commitment, or noting a player of such games: Compare hard-core (def 6).
9. Obsolete. uncertain.

Origin of casual

1325-75; Middle English Latin cāsuālis, equivalent to cāsu(s) case¹ + -ālis -al¹; replacing Middle English casuel Middle

Examples for casual

It came in a most casual voice, despite the dancing delight in her face.

Oh, the heaven and hell wrought by the casual use of a pronoun.

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

His large voice was modulated to kindliness as he spoke in a casual manner.

But in her the action was so casual, so absent, that it did not affect me disagreeably.

He was not a man given to casual affectionate display; the moment was charged with emotion.

Kingozi's attention, however, now narrowed to a smaller circle than the casual.

Every day I meet men who tell the most wonderful stories in the most casual way.

They “hook up” in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman.

We cannot expect to have a casual relationship with heritage.