irresponsible

English

Etymology

From ir- +‎ responsible.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɒn.sə.bəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪɹ.əˈspɑn.sə.bəl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɔn.sə.bəl/, [ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɔn.sə.bl̩]

• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

irresponsible (comparative more irresponsible, superlative most irresponsible)

1. (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.

2. Lacking a sense of responsibility; performed or acting as though without responsibility; negligent.

Translations

not responsible; not subject to responsibility

• Bikol Central: urag-uragon (bcl)
• Bulgarian: не но́сещ отгово́рност (ne nósešt otgovórnost)
• Catalan: irresponsable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不負責任的 / 不负责任的 (bù fù zérèn de)

• Finnish: viaton (fi), syytön (fi), ei vastuussa
• French: irresponsable (fr)
• German: nicht verantwortlich
• Greek: ανεύθυνος (el) (anéfthynos)
• Hungarian: felelősségre nem vonható (hu)
• Irish: neamhfhreagrach
• Italian: irresponsabile (it)
• Portuguese: irresponsável (pt)
• Russian: не несу́щий отве́тственности (ne nesúščij otvétstvennosti)
• Spanish: irresponsable (es)
• Swedish: oansvarig (sv)
• Turkish: mesul (tr)/sorumlu (tr) olmayan (tr)

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)

Noun

irresponsible (plural irresponsibles)

1. Someone who is not responsible.

See also

• unresponsive

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “irresponsible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “irresponsible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.