Dictionary Definition
irresponsible adj : showing lack of care for
consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and
irresponsible action" [ant: responsible]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
irresponsible- Lacking a sense of responsibility; incapable of or not chargeable with responsibility; unable to respond to obligation.
- Not responsible; not subject to responsibility; not to be held accountable, or called into question.
Translations
lacking a sense of responsibility
- German: verantwortungslos
not responsible; not subject to responsibility
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adrift,
afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, carefree, careless, changeable, changeful, chartered, desultory, deviable, devil-may-care,
disobedient,
dizzy, eccentric, erratic, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, fast and loose,
favored, feckless, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fly-by-night,
freakish, giddy, headstrong, heady, immune, impetuous, impulsive, incautious, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, ineffectual, infirm, insubordinate, irregular, irresolute, lawless, let off, licensed, licentious, mazy, mercurial, moody, mutinous, permitted, privileged, rambling, rampant, rash, reckless, reinless, released, restless, roving, scatterbrained,
self-willed, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spared, spasmodic, spineless, trustless, unaccountable, unanswerable, unbridled, uncertain, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undependable, undisciplined, unfaithworthy, unfixed, ungoverned, unliable, unpredictable, unreined, unreliable, unrestrained, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water,
unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubject, unsure, untrustworthy, untrusty, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary,
vicissitudinous,
volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wild, wildcat, willful,
wishy-washy