IRRESPONSIBLE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for IRRESPONSIBLE?

Need another word that means the same as “irresponsible”? Find 36 synonyms and 30 related words for “irresponsible” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Irresponsible” are: 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, negligent, delinquent, neglectful, remiss, careless of one's duty, lax, slack, uncaring, casual, insouciant, immature, naive, foolish

Irresponsible as an Adjective

Definitions of "Irresponsible" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “irresponsible” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Showing lack of care for consequences.
• (of a person, attitude, or action) not showing a proper sense of responsibility.

Synonyms of "Irresponsible" as an adjective (36 Words)

careless	(of an action or its result) showing or caused by a lack of attention. Hurt by a careless remark.
careless of one's duty	Without due thought or consideration.
casual	Employed or established on a temporary or irregular basis. He pretended it was a casual meeting.
daredevil	Reckless and daring. A daredevil skydiver.
delinquent	(typically of a young person) tending to commit crime, particularly minor crime. Delinquent minors.
foolhardy	Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences-Macaulay. It would be foolhardy to go into the scheme without support.
foolish	Devoid of good sense or judgment. He was foolish enough to confide in her.
hasty	Quick-tempered. Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
heedless	Characterized by careless unconcern. Heedless of danger.
ill-advised	Without careful prior deliberation or counsel.
ill-considered	Not given careful consideration.
immature	Not fully developed. His immature sense of humour.
impetuous	Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation. An impetuous but controlled flow of water.
imprudent	Not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash. Would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy.
impulsive	Acting or done without forethought. An impulsive gesture of affection.
inattentive	Not paying attention to something. Inattentive students.
incautious	(of a person or an action) heedless of potential problems or risks. Incautious talk.
injudicious	Showing very poor judgement; unwise. An injudicious measure.
insouciant	Marked by blithe unconcern. An utterly insouciant financial policy.
lax	Of a speech sound especially a vowel pronounced with the vocal muscles relaxed. Muscles have more potential energy when they are stretched than when they are lax.
misguided	Poorly conceived or thought out. Their misguided belief that they were defending the honour of their country.
naive	Of or created by one without formal training simple or naive in style. This naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances.
neglectful	Not showing due care or attention. Neglectful of his duties.
negligent	Characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern. Negligent parents.
overhasty	Done with very great haste and without due deliberation- Shakespeare- Arthur Geddes. Hard times are showing up overhasty mergers.
precipitate	Done with very great haste and without due deliberation. Wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king.
precipitous	Dangerously high or steep. The precipitous hills of Chinese paintings.
rash	Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences. Do something rash that he will forever repent.
reckless	Characterized by careless unconcern- Edith Wharton. You mustn t be so reckless.
remiss	Lacking care or attention to duty; negligent. Remiss of you not to pay your bills.
slack	Having many sexual encounters or relationships (typically used of a woman). Her mouth went slack.
thoughtless	Without care or thought for others. It was thoughtless of her to have rushed out and not said where she would be going.
uncaring	Without care or thought for others. She had always been uncaring of her appearance.
unheeding	Marked by or paying little heed or attention–Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mary unheeding watched the television.
unwise	Not appropriate to the purpose. Unwise policy decisions.
wild	Produced from wild animals or plants without cultivation. He threw a wild pitch.

Usage Examples of "Irresponsible" as an adjective

• It would have been irresponsible just to drive on.
• Behaved like an irresponsible idiot.
• Hasty and irresponsible action.

Associations of "Irresponsible" (30 Words)

airhead	A base close to the area of active operations where supplies and troops can be received and evacuated by air. She s a total airhead.
ambiguous	Not clear or decided. Ambiguous inkblots.
bungling	Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands- Mary H. A bungling performance.
cryptic	Of an obscure nature. Cryptic plumage is thought to minimize predation.
dependent	Unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence. Households with dependent children.
enigmatic	Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought. He took the money with an enigmatic smile.
feckless	Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible. Her feckless younger brother.
incapable	(followed by `of’) lacking capacity or ability. Incapable of solution.
incompetent	An incompetent person. The filming was hopeless incompetent.
incomprehensible	Difficult to understand- A. Einstein. The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
ineffable	Defying expression or description. The ineffable mysteries of the soul.
ineffective	Lacking in power or forcefulness. A weak and ineffective president.
inept	Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse. The referee s inept handling of the match.
inexplicable	Unable to be explained or accounted for. Inexplicable errors.
inscrutable	Impossible to understand or interpret. Guy looked blankly inscrutable.
insoluble	Incapable of being dissolved. The problem is not insoluble.
mysterious	Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding. The new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms.
paradoxical	Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory. By glorifying the acts of violence they achieve the paradoxical effect of making them trivial.
paradoxically	In a paradoxical manner. The strength of capitalism is paradoxically also its weakness.
puzzling	Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity. A puzzling statement.
questionable	Able to be refuted. Questionable motives.
senile	Mentally or physically infirm with age. She couldn t cope with her senile husband.
sibylline	Having a secret or hidden meaning- John Gunther. His fascinating if sometimes sibylline meditations on the nation.
unaccountable	Unable to be explained. A powerful and unaccountable institution.
uncertain	Not able to be relied on; not known or definite. A gun with a rather uncertain trigger.
unclear	Poorly stated or described. The law itself was unclear on that point.
unfathomable	Incapable of being fully understood. Her grey eyes were dark with some unfathomable emotion.
unintelligible	Impossible to understand. Dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans.
unqualified	(of a person) not officially recognized as a practitioner of a particular profession or activity through having satisfied the relevant conditions or requirements. The experiment was not an unqualified success.
unreliable	Lacking a sense of responsibility. He s lazy and unreliable.