casual

(s) marked by blithe unconcern
- an ability to interest casual students
- showed a casual disregard for cold weather
- an utterly insouciant financial policy
- an elegantly insouciant manner
- drove his car with nonchalant abandon
- was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner
insouciant, nonchalant,
(s) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- a casual remark
- information collected by casual methods and in their spare time
(s) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- casual clothes
- everyday clothes
daily, everyday,
(s) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- seek help from casual passers-by
- a casual meeting
- a chance occurrence
chance,
(s) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws
- a passing glance
- perfunctory courtesy
cursory, perfunctory, passing,
(s) occurring from time to time
- casual employment
- a casual correspondence with a former teacher
- an occasional worker
occasional,
(s) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
- a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter
fooling,
(s) natural and unstudied
- using their Christian names in a casual way
- lectured in a free-and-easy style
free-and-easy,
(s) not showing effort or strain
- a difficult feat performed with casual mastery
- careless grace
effortless,

insouciant nonchalant daily everyday chance cursory perfunctory passing occasional fooling free-and-easy effortless

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