Englishcasual
adjective
1 he has a casual attitude to life:
indifferent, apathetic, uncaring, uninterested, unconcerned;
lackadaisical, blasé, nonchalant, lukewarm, insouciant, offhand, hit-or-miss;
easygoing, free and easy, airy, breezy, blithe, carefree;
flippant, lax, slack, irresponsible, devil-may-care;
informal couldn't-care-less, laid-back;
rare pococurante.
▷antonyms careful, concerned.
2 a casual remark:
offhand, random, impromptu, spontaneous, unpremeditated, unthinking, unstudied, unconsidered, parenthetical, passing, throwaway, trivial;
ill-considered, ill-judged, unguarded;
informal off-the-cuff.
▷antonyms premeditated.
3 he threw a casual glance over his shoulder:
cursory, perfunctory, superficial, passing, fleeting, summary, desultory, careless;
hasty, hurried, rushed, brief, quick.
▷antonyms thorough, careful.
4 she was no more than a casual acquaintance:
slight, superficial, shallow, vague, faint.
▷antonyms intimate, close.
5 he does casual work on farms:
temporary, part-time, impermanent, freelance;
irregular, occasional, intermittent;
outside, outsourced.
▷antonyms permanent; full-time.
6 casual sex had never been her scene:
promiscuous, recreational, extramarital;
liberated, uninhibited, free;
informal swinging.
7 a casual meeting with two students changed his life:
chance, accidental, random, unintentional, unplanned, unintended, inadvertent, unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked-for, occurring by chance/accident, fortuitous, coincidental, fluky, serendipitous, adventitious, aleatory.
▷antonyms planned, intentional.