casually
Syllables: cas·u·al·lyUK/ˈkæʒ(j)ʊəli//ˈkæʒuəli/
casually adverb: in a casual manner.
Adverb
casually (comparative more casually, superlative most casually)
- In a casual manner.
- A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, and grow momentarily fascinated by her freshness, and wonder if they would ever see her again: but to almost everybody she was a fine and picturesque country girl, and no more.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 21
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day.[…]A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
casually meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam
casually in Hindi
- आकस्मिक रूप से
casually in Urdu
- بلاارادہ, اتفاقاً, ناگاہ
casually in Malayalam
- casually
- ചുമ്മാ cummā
Examples of casually in a sentence
- He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!:
- He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually.1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 10:
Forms of casually
| comparative | more casually |
|---|---|
| superlative | most casually |
Origin of casually
From Middle English casually, casuelly, casuali, casuely, equivalent to casual + -ly.
Words formed from casually
Questions about casually
- What does casually mean?
- Casually means in a casual manner.
- What is casually in Hindi?
- Casually in Hindi is आकस्मिक रूप से. See Casually meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use casually in a sentence?
- He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking.
- What part of speech is casually?
- Casually is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce casually?
- Casually is pronounced /ˈkæʒuəli/ (US).
Words near casually in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: casually (page history and authors); casually (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casually (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ചുമ്മാ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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