Casual

['kæʒjʊəl;-zj-] or ['kæʒʊəl]

解釋/意思:

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) not showing effort or strain; 'a difficult feat performed with casual mastery'; 'careless grace' .

(adj.) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; 'casual clothes'; 'everyday clothes' .

(adj.) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; 'seek help from casual passers-by'; 'a casual meeting'; 'a chance occurrence' .

(adj.) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; 'a casual remark'; 'information collected by casual methods and in their spare time' .

(adj.) occurring from time to time; 'casual employment'; 'a casual correspondence with a former teacher'; 'an occasional worker' .

约瑟夫編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

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

(a.) Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.

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

吉莉安手打

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Accidental, fortuitous, incidental, contingent, that happens by chance.

整理:斯特拉

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Accidental, occasional, incidental, contingent, unforeseen, fortuitous

ANT:Regular, ordinary, systematic, periodic, certain, fixed,[See CASUALTY]

科琳錄入

解釋/意思:

adj. accidental: unforeseen: occasional.—n. a chance or occasional visitor labourer pauper &c.—n. Cas′ualism the belief that chance governs all things.—adv. Cas′ually in a casual manner.—n. Cas′ualty that which falls out: an accident: a misfortune: (pl.) losses of a military force by death desertion &c.: an incidental charge or payment.—Casualties of superiority in the feudal law of Scotland such emoluments arising to the superior as depend on uncertain events—those of non-entry relief or composition and escheat alone remaining but considerably modified by the Conveyancing Act of 1874.—Casualty ward the ward in a hospital in which accidents are treated; Casual ward a ward set apart for the use of those who are only occasionally in destitution.

編輯:娜塔莎