SG Heritage Dictionary

Casual [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Falling; happening or coming to pass without design in the person or persons affected, and without being foreseen, or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance; as, the parties had a casual rencounter.

2. Occasional; coming at certain times, without regularity, in distinction from stated, or regular; as casual expenses.

3. Taking place, or beginning to exist without an efficient intelligent cause, and without design.

4. Atheists assert that the existence of things is casual

Casual [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.

Casual [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Casualism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.

Casualist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who believes in casualism.

Casually [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Accidentally; fortuitously; without design; by chance.

Casually [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.

Casualness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Accidentalness; the quality of being casual.

Casualness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being casual.

Casualties [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Casualty

Casualty [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Accident; that which comes by chance or without design, or without being foreseen; contingency.

2. An accident that produces unnatural death; and by a metonymy, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident.

3. In Scots law, an emolument due from a vassal to his superior, beyond the stated yearly duties, upon certain casual events.

Casualty [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.

2. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.

3. Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.

Chance Roget’s Thesaurus §156

N. chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit, fate, equal chance, lottery, tombola, toss up, turn of the table, turn of the cards, hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate, cast of the dice, throw of the dice, heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of fortune, sortes, sortes virgilianae, probability, possibility, odds, long odds, run of luck, accidentalness, main chance, odds on, favorable odds, contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475, situation (circumstance) 8, statistics, theory of probabilities, theory of chances, bookmaking, assurance, speculation, gaming

V. chance, hap, turn up, fall to one's lot, be one's -fate, stumble on light upon, take one's chance

Adj. casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate, random, statistical, possible, unintentional

Adv. by chance, accidentally, by accident, casually, perchance, for aught one knows, as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it, as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen, as the case may be

Phr. "grasps the skirts of happy chance", "the accident of an accident", "there but for the grace of god go i." 2, connection between cause and effect

Uncertainty Roget’s Thesaurus §475

N. uncertainty, incertitude, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy|, dubitousness, hesitation, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment, timidity, vacillation, diaporesis, indetermination, vagueness, haze, fog, obscurity, ambiguity, contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility, open question, onus probandi, blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other, needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay, roving commission, precariousness, fallibility

V. be uncertain, wonder whether, lose the clue, lose the clew, scent, miss one's way, not know what to make of, not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels, float in a sea of doubt, hesitate, flounder, lose oneself, lose one's head, muddle one's brains, render uncertain, put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass, confuse, confound, bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces, keep in suspense, doubt, hang in the balance, tremble in the balance, depend

Adj. uncertain, casual, random, changeable, doubtful, dubious, indecisive, unsettled, undecided, undetermined, in suspense, open to discussion, controvertible, in question, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, ambiguous, equivocal, undefined, undefinable, confused, mystic, oracular, dazed, perplexing, enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical, experimental, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) 519, fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable, unreliable, untrustworthy, contingent, contingent on, dependent on, subject to, dependent on circumstances, occasional, provisional, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unascertained, unconfirmed, undemonstrated, untold, uncounted, in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze, bushed, off the track, ignorant, &c. 491, afraid to say, out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift, at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, puzzled, lost, abroad, dsorient, distracted, distraught

Adv. pendente lite, sub spe rati

Phr. heaven knows, who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces