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/kˈæʒəwəl/ /kˈæʒwəl/ Listen

adjective

Casual adj.

Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance. "Casual breaks, in the general system."

Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. "A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture."

Synonyms: Accidental; fortutious; incidental; occasional; contingent; unforeseen. See Accidental.

noun

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

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Etymology of 'Casual'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx

... clergyman, being new to the discipline, might make a mistake and get "reported," and in that way would not be so likely to reach the third class so soon as the other; but granting that he did so they would still be together, the man inured to guilt and crime would still be beside the new and casual lodger, the man who had never been in prison before would still have the opportunity of learning the evil ways of the confirmed rogue. Again, should the clergyman be fortunate enough in passing into the higher classes at the usual time, the jail ...

— Six Years in the Prisons of England • A Merchant - Anonymous

... for a while after that. The talk became casual. Wallace, it was easy to see, was enormously relieved. Mary had been put in unreserved possession of the facts and had endured them better than he could possibly have hoped. He began chatting about the farm again, not now as ...

— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... beating of his heart, and as he waited thus the last time the lone cabin-dweller appeared in his door and silently gazed, confronting his visitor with a strangely inhospitable and prolonged scrutiny. It was as if he were a lonely animal, jealous of his ground and resentful even of the most casual ...

— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland

... and its catastrophe in Disillusion: love, which is life's core and kernel and epitome, the focus and quintessence of existence. A life that is without it has somehow missed its mark: it is meaningless and plotless, "a string of casual episodes, like a bad tragedy." For what, after all, is Love? Who has given an account of it? Plato's fable, which makes Love the child of Satiety and Want, or Poverty and Plenty, is a pretty piece of fancy: it is clever: but like mathematics, an explanation of the ...

— Bubbles of the Foam • Unknown

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