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Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.

A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.

A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign. Irresponsible power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant. C. J. Smith.

uilt. -- Moral insanity, insanity, so called, of the moral system; badness alleged to be irresponsible. -- Moral philosophy, the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded…

Irresponsible. Fuller. -- Un`re*spon"si*ble*ness, n.

eams arise. Spenser. Our public-school and university life is a great wellhead of new and irresponsible words. Earle.

Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.