Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
showing lack of care for consequences;
- Example: "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"- Example: "hasty and irresponsible action"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
irresponsible
adj 1: showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an
irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"
[ant: responsible]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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