English > irresponsible: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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