English words for 'Absence of responsibility; not being responsible.'
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noun
- the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
- The act of neglecting.
- willful lack of care and attention
- failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- lack of attention and due care
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected
- Habitual lack of care.
- The state of being neglected.
verb
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- fail to attend to
- give little or no attention to
- leave undone or leave out
- (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
- (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
- (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
- (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
noun
- the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
- The state of being negligent.
- failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- (law, singular only) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
- (law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
adj
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not having a job
- not in active use
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
noun
verb
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
adj
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not literal
- Relaxed.
- Not fitting closely.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
adv
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- make loose or looser
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
intj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
- To avoid an obligation or responsibility.
- To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
- avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
- move furtively
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
noun
verb
noun
noun
- Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
- Censure.
- (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
- Responsibility for something meriting censure.
- a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed
adj
verb
- (transitive, with "on") To assert the cause of some bad event.
- To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
- (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
- put or pin the blame on
- attribute responsibility to
- harass with constant criticism
noun
- One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.
- One who stays where they cannot be seen (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
- One who moves in a stealthy or furtive way; one who comes or goes while trying to avoid detection.
- someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
- someone waiting in concealment
noun
adj
- Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.
- Not concerned or worried (about).
- (usually followed by ‘of’) without due thought or consideration
- marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
- effortless and unstudied
adj
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
- not showing effort or strain
- marked by blithe unconcern
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- natural and unstudied
- appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- occurring on a temporary or irregular basis
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- (of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.
- Happening by chance.
- (of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.
- Employed irregularly.
- Careless.
noun
- (fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is doing a particular type of job temporarily, not as a lifetime career.
- (in the plural) Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- (UK, historical) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- (video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.
- (UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
adj
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
- (geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.
- Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
- (medicine, of the cervix) Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
- not doing a good job
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- not meeting requirements
- legally not qualified or sufficient
- not qualified or suited for a purpose
noun
noun
- Lack of concern or care: carelessness, indolence.
- Freedom from inhibition and awkwardness: grace.
- State or quality of being promiscuous, of consenting readily to sex; sluttiness.
- Freedom from discomfort and worry: comfort.
- Looseness or pliancy, often derogatory
- Lack of harshness: gentleness, kindness.
- Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
- Lack of firm conviction: gullibility, credulity.
- Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- the quality of being easy in behavior or style
noun
- the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
- The act of neglecting.
- willful lack of care and attention
- failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- lack of attention and due care
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected
- Habitual lack of care.
- The state of being neglected.
verb
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- fail to attend to
- give little or no attention to
- leave undone or leave out
- (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
- (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
- (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
- (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
noun
- the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
- The state of being negligent.
- failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- (law, singular only) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
- (law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
noun
verb
- To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
- To avoid an obligation or responsibility.
- To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
- avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
- move furtively
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
noun
noun
- Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
- Censure.
- (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
- Responsibility for something meriting censure.
- a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed
adj
verb
- (transitive, with "on") To assert the cause of some bad event.
- To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
- (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
- put or pin the blame on
- attribute responsibility to
- harass with constant criticism
noun
- One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.
- One who stays where they cannot be seen (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
- One who moves in a stealthy or furtive way; one who comes or goes while trying to avoid detection.
- someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
- someone waiting in concealment
noun
noun
- Lack of concern or care: carelessness, indolence.
- Freedom from inhibition and awkwardness: grace.
- State or quality of being promiscuous, of consenting readily to sex; sluttiness.
- Freedom from discomfort and worry: comfort.
- Looseness or pliancy, often derogatory
- Lack of harshness: gentleness, kindness.
- Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
- Lack of firm conviction: gullibility, credulity.
- Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- the quality of being easy in behavior or style
adj
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
- (geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.
- Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
- (medicine, of the cervix) Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
- not doing a good job
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- not meeting requirements
- legally not qualified or sufficient
- not qualified or suited for a purpose
noun
verb
verb
noun
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adj
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not having a job
- not in active use
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
noun
verb
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
adj
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not literal
- Relaxed.
- Not fitting closely.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
adv
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- make loose or looser
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
intj
noun
adj
- Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.
- Not concerned or worried (about).
- (usually followed by ‘of’) without due thought or consideration
- marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
- effortless and unstudied
adj
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
- not showing effort or strain
- marked by blithe unconcern
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- natural and unstudied
- appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- occurring on a temporary or irregular basis
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- (of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.
- Happening by chance.
- (of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.
- Employed irregularly.
- Careless.
noun
- (fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is doing a particular type of job temporarily, not as a lifetime career.
- (in the plural) Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- (UK, historical) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- (video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.
- (UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
adj
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
- (geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.
- Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
- (medicine, of the cervix) Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
- not doing a good job
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- not meeting requirements
- legally not qualified or sufficient
- not qualified or suited for a purpose