Irresponsible

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irresponsible \Ir`re*spon"si*ble\, a. [Pref. ir- not +
     responsible: cf. F. irresponsable.]
     1. Not responsible; not liable or able to answer for
        consequences; innocent.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Not to be trusted; unreliable; lacking a proper sense of
        responsibility.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irresponsible
       adj : showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an
             irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"
             [ant: {responsible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "irresponsible":
     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