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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