Irresponsible
[ˌɪrɪˈspɒnsəbl] or [,ɪrɪ'spɑnsəbl]
Definition
(adj.) showing lack of care for consequences; 'behaved like an irresponsible idiot'; 'hasty and irresponsible action' .
Checker: Vernon--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.
(a.) Not to be trusted; unreliable.
Editor: Olivia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unaccountable, unanswerable, not responsible.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unbound, unencumbered, unaccountable, {not_answerable}, excusable, lawless,arbitrary, despotic
ANT:Responsible, obligatory, binding, imperative, chargeable_on, under_obligation,lawful, legal, legitimate
Typist: Wolfgang
Definition
adj. not responsible (with for).—n. Irresponsibil′ity.—adv. Irrespons′ibly.—adj. Irrespons′ive.—n. Irrespons′iveness.
Edited by Gene
Examples
- There was a complete SANG FROID and indifference under Winifred's childish reserve, a certain irresponsible callousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Is _man_ ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She LOVED her Daddy, because he wanted her always to be happy, and because he seemed to become young again, and irresponsible in her presence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He looked at her with a new pleasure, feeling gay in his heart, irresponsible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And how Hermione hated him for this irresponsible gaiety. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I could take a human life, if necessary, with far less compunction than that of a poor, unreasoning, irresponsible brute. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This is an authority to him to pay you that money, to lay out at your irresponsible discretion for your friend. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She had always her strange, rapt look, unnatural and irresponsible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The king is conceived of as ceremonial and irresponsible, a living symbol of the royal and imperial system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Greek life, observation was acute and alert; and thinking was free almost to the point of irresponsible speculations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yet a curious little irresponsible laughter appeared in his heart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Gene