Remiss vs Casual - What's the difference?
remiss | casual | Related terms |
At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations.
Not energetic or exact in duty or business; careless; tardy; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
* Milton
* Woodward
Happening by chance.
* (Washington Irving)
Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Employed irregularly.
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, title= Careless.
* 2007 , Nick Holland, The Girl on the Bus (page 117)
Happening or coming to pass without design.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 Informal, relaxed.
Designed for informal or everyday use.
(British, NZ) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
(UK) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see .
One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
A player of casual games.
Remiss is a related term of casual.
As adjectives the difference between remiss and casual
is that remiss is at fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations while casual is happening by chance.As a noun casual is
(british|nz) a worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.remiss
English
Adjective
(-)- I would certainly be remiss if I did not give credit where credit was due.
- Thou never wast remiss , I bear thee witness.
- Its motion becomes more languid and remiss .
Synonyms
* at fault, blameworthy, negligent, reprehensibleSee also
* remiseAnagrams
* ----casual
English
Alternative forms
* casuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- casual breaks, in the general system
- a constant habit, rather than a casual gesture
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
- I removed my jacket and threw it casually over the back of the settee.
citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
