English > irresponsible: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | showing lack of care for consequences. |
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Examples | - "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"
- "hasty and irresponsible action"
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Attribute of | responsibility, responsibleness | A form of trustworthiness |
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Narrower | carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy | cheerfully irresponsible |
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do-nothing | Characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility |
feckless | not fit to assume responsibility |
idle, loose | lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility |
trigger-happy | irresponsible in the use of firearms |
unaccountable | Free from control or responsibility |
unreliable | lacking a sense of responsibility |
Opposite | responsible | worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust |
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Spanish | imprudente, irresponsable, temerario |
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Catalan | irresponsable |
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Nouns | irresponsibility, irresponsibleness | a form of untrustworthiness |
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Adverbs | irresponsibly | in an irresponsible manner |
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