Qualities
Synonyms for casual
Synonyms for casual: passing, nonchalant, chance and occasional. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for casual
Interchangeable with casual, one per sense
Audited under casual's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one casual carries in that sense.
- passingadjective, in the sense "hasty and without attention to detail"
- nonchalantadjective, in the sense "marked by blithe unconcern"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name casual as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- chancechance is an adjective in the sense "occurring or appearing or singled out by chance"
- occasionaloccasional is an adjective in the sense "occurring on a temporary or irregular basis"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under casual and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
hasty and without attention to detail
A casual inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws.
The true synonym
passing
Same sentence, swapped: A passing inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- fooling
- everyday
- additional
marked by blithe unconcern
He gave a casual shrug and walked away.
The true synonym
nonchalant
Same sentence, swapped: He gave a nonchalant shrug and walked away.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- fooling
- occasional
- additional
Where casual turns up in the game
casual is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where casual is the trap
- datedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is outmoded, in the sense "no longer current or fashionable", with casual sitting one tile away.
- automaticadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is robotic, in the sense "resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine", and casual is one of the three tiles that lose.
- gruelingadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is arduous, in the sense "extremely demanding and exhausting, testing endurance", and casual is on the board beside it.
Play casual
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so casual reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company casual keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
casual is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.