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English
Etymology
From ir- + responsible.
Pronunciation
Adjective
irresponsible (comparative more irresponsible, superlative most irresponsible)
- (now rare) Not responsible; exempt from legal responsibility, not to be held accountable.
1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 28:They left the crown what, in the eye and estimation of law, it had ever been, perfectly irresponsible.
- Lacking a sense of responsibility; performed or acting as though without responsibility; negligent.
Translations
not responsible; not subject to responsibility
lacking a sense of responsibility
- Armenian: անպատասխանատու (hy) (anpatasxanatu)
- Belarusian: безадка́зны (bjezadkázny), безадпавяда́льны (bjezadpavjadálʹny)
- Bulgarian: безотгово́рен (bg) (bezotgovóren)
- Catalan: irresponsable
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不負責的／不负责的 (bù fù zérèn de), 不负责任的 (bù fù zérèn de)
- Czech: nezodpovědný, neodpovědný
- Danish: uansvarlig
- Dutch: onverantwoordelijk (nl)
- Finnish: vastuuton (fi)
- French: irresponsable (fr)
- Galician: irresponsable (gl)
- German: verantwortungslos (de), unverantwortlich (de)
- Greek: ανεύθυνος (el) (anéfthynos)
- Hungarian: felelőtlen (hu), meggondolatlan (hu)
- Italian: irresponsabile (it)
- Japanese: 無責任な (ja) (むせきにんな, musekinin na)
- Korean: 무책임하다 (ko) (muchaegimhada), 책임이 없는 (chaegimi eomneun)
- Latvian: bezatbildīgs
- Macedonian: неодговорен (neodgovoren)
- Maori: hurori, mākahi
- Marathi: बेजबाबदार m or f (bej̈abābdār)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ansvarsløs (no), uansvarlig
- Polish: nieodpowiedzialny (pl), lekkomyślny (pl)
- Portuguese: irresponsável (pt)
- Romanian: iresponsabil (ro)
- Russian: безотве́тственный (ru) (bezotvétstvennyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: не̏одгово̄ран
- Roman: nȅodgovōran (sh)
- Slovak: nezodpovedný
- Slovene: neodgovoren
- Spanish: irresponsable (es)
- Swedish: ansvarslös (sv), oansvarig (sv)
- Turkish: mesuliyetsiz (tr), sorumsuz (tr)
- Ukrainian: безвідповіда́льний (uk) (bezvidpovidálʹnyj)
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Noun
irresponsible (plural irresponsibles)
- Someone who is not responsible.
See also
References
- “irresponsible”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “irresponsible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.