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casual

adj
/ˈkaʒ(uː)əl/UK/ˈkæʒ(u)əl/US/ˈkɛʒ(ʉː)əl/

Etymology

From Middle French casuel, from Late Latin cāsuālis (“happening by chance”), from Latin cāsus (“event”) (English case), from cadere (“to fall”) (whence English cadence).

  1. derived from cāsuālis
  2. borrowed from casuel

Definitions

  1. Happening by chance.

    • They only had casual meetings.
    • casual breaks, in the general system

  2. Coming without regularity

    Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.

    • The purchase of donuts was just a casual expense.
    • a constant habit, rather than a casual gesture

  3. Employed irregularly.

    • He was just a casual worker.
  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. Careless.

      • I removed my jacket and threw it casually over the back of the settee.

    2. Happening or coming to pass without design.

      • Hogan assumed the entire creek bed was to be played as a casual hazard, moved his ball out and assessed himself a one-stroke penalty.

    3. Informal

      Informal; relaxed.

      • tone in casual interactions

    4. Designed for informal or everyday use.

      • pants in the casual wear collection

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

    6. A worker who is doing a particular type of job temporarily, not as a lifetime career.

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

    8. A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid…

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

    9. One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong

      One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.

    10. A player of casual games.

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

    11. A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.

      • Casuals outnumbered regulars in the art-house audience two to one.
      • Most often, when a series is marketed toward casuals, the loyals feel that their interests and needs are not being met.

    12. A tramp.

      • I was a boy in 1922 or 1923, when buses first started to run between the village and the town; there were tramps, casuals as they were called; the whole pattern of my boyhood was knit into a very loaded atmosphere of human character.

    13. Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.

      • Next spring you’ll see more women than ever wearing “casuals” and “flats,” the shoes with the wedge heels or no heels at all.
      • In girls wearing casuals, ugly hypertrophied skin over the heels was frequently noted, probably due to the loose shoe moving as they walked.
      • Like his friends, he is wearing casuals, ideal for lounging around crypts.

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Derived

business casual, casual alien, casual Friday, casual gaming, casualisation, casualism, casualist, casualization, casualize, casually, casualness, casual sex, casualty, casual ward, casual water, casualwear, decasualize, fast casual, filthy casual, fine casual, hypercasual, noncasual, overcasual, semicasual, smart casual, ultracasual, uncasual

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at casual. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01casual02chance03probability04occur05presented06specified07thoroughly08thorough09detail

A definitional loop anchored at casual. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at casual

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA