Definition of Casual

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Casual

Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.

Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.

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

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Casual Quotations

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
James Dobson

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.
Larry David

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. Burroughs

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Walter Lippmann

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
Ice T

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
Michael Stipe

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.
Michael Stipe

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
David Antin

Casual Translations

casual in French is accidentel, de rencontre
casual in Italian is occasionale, accidentale
casual in Latin is fortuitus
casual in Norwegian is tilfeldig
casual in Spanish is fortuito, ocasional, incidental, casual

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