irresponsible
/ɪrɪˈspɒnsɪb(ə)l
/adjective
(Of a person, attitude, or action) not showing a proper sense of responsibility: [with infinitive]: it would have been irresponsible just to drive on...
- We are appalled at the irresponsible attitude you have displayed in condoning such anti-social behaviour.
- I think they are evading their responsibility in a grossly irresponsible way.
- And additional spending of that nature is seen to be fiscally irresponsible.
Synonyms
reckless, rash, careless, thoughtless, incautious, unwise, imprudent, ill-advised, ill-considered, injudicious, misguided, heedless, unheeding, inattentive, hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous, wild, foolhardy, impetuous, impulsive, daredevil, devil-may-care, hot-headed, negligent, delinquent, neglectful, remiss, careless of one's duty, lax, slack, uncaring, casual, insouciant;
North American derelict
rare disregardful, inadvertent, oscitant
immature, naive, foolish, hare-brained, feather-brained;
carefree, blasé;
unreliable, undependable, untrustworthy, flighty, giddy, scatterbrained, erratic;
British tearaway
informal harum-scarum, slap-happy
Rhymes
- probationist
- probation officer
- probation order
- probation report
- probation service
- probationship
- probation station
- probative
- probatively
- probativeness
- probatory
- probatum est
- probe
- probeable
- probe-and-drogue
- probe microphone
- probe mike
- probenecid
- probe needle
- probe-pointed
- prober
- probertite
- probie
- probingly
- probingness