Word Meanings - CASUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance. Casual breaks, in the general system. W. Irving. 2. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as,

Additional info about word: CASUAL

1. Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance. Casual breaks, in the general system. W. Irving. 2. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. Hawthorne. Syn. -- Accidental; fortutious; incidental; occasional; contingent; unforeseen. See Accidental.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CASUAL)

• Adventitious
• Extrinsic
• redundant
• superfluous
• adscititious irregular
• casual
• imported
• Incidental
• Casual
• occasional
• appertinent
• concomitant
• concurrent
• accidental
• fortuitous
• Random
• Haphazard
• stray
• chance
• wild
• aimless
• purposeless
• unpremeditated
• vague

Related words: (words related to CASUAL)

• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• FORTUITOUS
  Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes. Abbott. Syn. -- Accidental; casual; contingent; incidental. See Accidental. -- For*tu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- For*tu"i*tous*ness, n. (more info)
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• CASUALISM
  The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• IMPORTING
  Full of meaning. Shak.
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• IMPORTUOUS
  Without a port or harbor.
• VAGUELY
  In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• RANDOMLY
  In a random manner.
• EXTRINSICAL
  Extrinsic. -- Ex*trin"sic*al*ly , adv.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• NONIMPORTATION
  Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
• ASTRAY
  Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.