| 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 FAMILYirresponsibility: irresponsibilities+/irresponsible: irresponsibility, irresponsibleness, irresponsibly/responsibility: responsibilities/responsible: irresponsible, responsibility, responsibleness, responsibly USAGE EXAMPLESA 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, whimsythe trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment carefreenessthe trait of being without worry or responsibility indifference, nonchalance, unconcernthe trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern instabilityunreliability attributable to being unstable irreproducibilitythe quality of being unreproducible fallibilitythe likelihood of making errors untrustiness, untrustworthiness the trait of not deserving trust or confidence |
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