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Adjectives (15)
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casual, effortless
adj. not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace"
free-and-easy, casual
adj. natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"
casual, chance(a)
adj. occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
casual, occasional
adj. occurring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"
casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory
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"
casual, insouciant, nonchalant
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"
Fuzzynyms (68)
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plain
adj. not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
relaxed
adj. without strain or anxiety; "gave the impression of being quite relaxed"; "a relaxed and informal discussion"
colloquial, conversational
adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"
idiomatic, idiomatical
adj. of or relating to or conforming to idiom; "idiomatic English"
adventitious
adj. associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, co-occurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous
adj. occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of coincident events"
unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)
adj. not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue"
causeless, fortuitous, uncaused
adj. having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle"; "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times"
haphazard, hit-or-miss
adj. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"
oblivious(p), unmindful(p)
adj. (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility"
accidental, inadvertent
adj. happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally ; "with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"
unintentional, unplanned, unwitting
adj. not done with purpose or intent; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked"
degage
adj. free and relaxed in manner; "rather degage after the nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson
flying, quick, fast
adj. hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
facile
adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"
haphazard, hit-or-miss
adj. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"
hasty
adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
indifferent
adj. neither too great nor too little; "a couple of indifferent hills to climb"
casual, insouciant, nonchalant
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"
fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise
adj. improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
careless
adj. effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace"
lackadaisical
adj. idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
aloof, distant, upstage
adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"
degage
adj. free and relaxed in manner; "rather degage after the nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson
relaxed
adj. without strain or anxiety; "gave the impression of being quite relaxed"; "a relaxed and informal discussion"
flippant, light-minded
adj. showing inappropriate levity
agile, nimble, quick, spry
adj. moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"
shallow
adj. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory
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"
Synonyms (51)
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cushy, soft, easygoing
adj. not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "the easygoing life of a parttime consultant"; "a soft job"
elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic
adj. easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
smooth
adj. lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
simplified
adj. made easy or uncomplicated
knockabout
adj. suitable for rough use; "a knockabout overcoat"; "a knockabout old car"
familiar, unstudied
adj. "lectured in a familiar style"
folksy
adj. very informal and familiar; "a folksy radio commentator"; "a folksy style"
unceremonious, unceremonial
adj. without ceremony or formality; "an unceremonious speech"
ad hoc
adj. often improvised or impromptu; "an ad hoc committee meeting"
offhand, offhanded
adj. casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt"
unstudied, uncontrived
adj. not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm"
unexpected
adj. not planned; "an unexpected pregnancy"
jerking, jerky, arrhythmic, unsteady
adj. not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"
asymmetrical, crooked
adj. irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline"
grab
adj. taken or to be taken at random: "grab samples"
improper, unconventional, unlawful
adj. not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking practices"
randomized, randomised
adj. set up or distributed in a deliberately random way
straggly
adj. growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"
strong
adj. of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; "`sing' is a strong verb"
substandard
adj. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
unstudied, effortless
adj. "careless grace"
haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
blase
adj. nonchalantly unconcerned; "a blase attitude about housecleaning"
blithe
adj. lacking or showing a lack of due concern; "spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation"
jaunty, debonair, debonaire
adj. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist"
degage, detached, uninvolved
adj. showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander"
indifferent
adj. neither too great nor too little; "a couple of indifferent hills to climb"
Antonyms (9)
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formal
adj. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"
planned
adj. designed or carried out according to a plan; "the planned outlays for new equipment"
intentional, knowing
adj. characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"
expected
adj. considered likely or probable to happen or arrive; "prepared for the expected attack"
deliberate, calculated, measured
adj. carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony"
concerned
adj. feeling or showing worry or solicitude; "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child"
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