英语词汇“irresponsibility”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Irresponsibility is the quality of not being trustworthy or dependable. Forgetting to pick your little brother up after school would be evidence of your irresponsibility as a babysitter.

Letting your house plants die, forgetting to walk your dog, or leaving water boiling on the stove all afternoon are all examples of irresponsibility. People who act in an irresponsible way have this trait. Both irresponsibility and irresponsible have the "not" prefix ir-, and responsible, originally a French word that first meant "legally accountable for one's actions," and later "trustworthy."

WORD FAMILY

irresponsibility: irresponsibilities+/irresponsible: irresponsibility, irresponsibleness, irresponsibly/responsibility: responsibilities/responsible: irresponsible, responsibility, responsibleness, responsibly

USAGE EXAMPLES

A defense expert argued at trial that Couch’s wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility.

Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016)

In rare situations, this contributes to the hazardous irresponsibility that led to the events of last Friday.

The Guardian(Dec 09, 2016)

In fact foolishness, vulgarity, inconsistency and irresponsibility seem actually to be British inventions that have been painstakingly copied – once more – by the Americans.

The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016)

n a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions

Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper

irresponsibleness

responsibility, responsibleness

a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct

undependability, undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness

the trait of not being dependable or reliable

arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy

the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment

carefreeness

the trait of being without worry or responsibility

indifference, nonchalance, unconcern

the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern

instability

unreliability attributable to being unstable

irreproducibility

the quality of being unreproducible

fallibility

the likelihood of making errors

untrustiness, untrustworthiness

the trait of not deserving trust or confidence

单词	irresponsibility
释义	irresponsibility (once / 7736 pages) n Irresponsibility is the quality of not being trustworthy or dependable. Forgetting to pick your little brother up after school would be evidence of your irresponsibility as a babysitter. Letting your house plants die, forgetting to walk your dog, or leaving water boiling on the stove all afternoon are all examples of irresponsibility. People who act in an irresponsible way have this trait. Both irresponsibility and irresponsible have the "not" prefix ir-, and responsible, originally a French word that first meant "legally accountable for one's actions," and later "trustworthy." WORD FAMILY irresponsibility: irresponsibilities+/irresponsible: irresponsibility, irresponsibleness, irresponsibly/responsibility: responsibilities/responsible: irresponsible, responsibility, responsibleness, responsibly USAGE EXAMPLES A defense expert argued at trial that Couch’s wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) In rare situations, this contributes to the hazardous irresponsibility that led to the events of last Friday. The Guardian(Dec 09, 2016) In fact foolishness, vulgarity, inconsistency and irresponsibility seem actually to be British inventions that have been painstakingly copied – once more – by the Americans. The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016) n a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions Syn\|Ant\|Hypo\|Hyper irresponsibleness responsibility, responsibleness a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct undependability, undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness the trait of not being dependable or reliable arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment carefreeness the trait of being without worry or responsibility indifference, nonchalance, unconcern the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern instability unreliability attributable to being unstable irreproducibility the quality of being unreproducible fallibility the likelihood of making errors untrustiness, untrustworthiness the trait of not deserving trust or confidence
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