'Irresponsible' definitions:
Definition of 'irresponsible'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action" [ant: responsible]
Definition of 'Irresponsible'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'irresponsible'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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