irresolution, n. 1. infirmity, vacillation, indecision, indecisiveness, uncertainty, doubt, dubiety; hesitancy, hesitance, tergiversation, changeableness, irresoluteness, fickleness, wishy-washiness; inconstancy, instability, variability, unsteadiness, unsteadfastness; half-heartedness, indifference, lukewarmness, lackadaisicalness, apathy, passivity.
2. faintheartedness, squeamishness, cowardice, pusillanimity, yellow streak, poltroonery; timidity, timorousness, tremulousness, fearfulness; weakness, frailty, feebleness, faintness; submissiveness, softness, pliancy, yieldingness.
irrespective, adj. Usu.
irrespective of without regard to, regardless of, ignoring, discounting; apart from, independent, separate, distinct; in spite of, despite, notwithstanding.
irresponsible, adj. 1. untrustworthy, unreliable, devil-may-care; unaccountable, unanswerable, fly-by-night; lawless, unruly, unrestrained, reckless, rash, harum-scarum.
2. capricious, erratic, flighty, mercurial, featherbrained; light-minded, frivolous. Inf. no-account, trifling; inconstant, changeable, fickle, giddy, volatile; unstable, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, mutable, fluctuating, variable, irresolute, infirm of purpose; half-hearted, undecided, uncommitted, unsettled, arbitrary, foot-loose and fancy-free; thoughtless, inconsiderate, self-centered.
irresponsive, adj. 1. uncommunicative, reticent, reserved, secretive, taciturn, unconversable, quiet; silent, mum, mute, close-mouthed.
2. indifferent, unconcerned, unresponsive, uninterested, incurious, uninquisitive; aloof, removed, detached, withdrawn.
3. apathetic, impassive, unemotional, unfeeling, dispassionate, insentient, insensible; cool, cold, frigid, icy; phlegmatic, lethargic, listless, languid, dull.
irretrievable, adj. irrecoverable, unrecoverable, un-regainable, unsalvageable, unsavable, lost; irreclaimable, unreclaimable, irredeemable, inredeemable; irre-formable, unreformable, incorrigible, reprobate, beyond or past help; irreparable, unrestorable, unfixable, uncorrectable, unrectifiable; incurable, immedicable, unmedicable, uncurable, cureless, terminal, unremedi-able, irremediable, remediless; hopeless, beyond or past hope, lost cause.
irreverence, n. 1. disrespectfulness, unrespectfulness, discourtesy, discourteousness, uncourtesy, un-courteousness, impoliteness, incivility, uncivilness; rudeness, impudence, impudency, impertinence, im-pertinency, impertinentness, insolence.
2. impiety, impiousness, unpiety, blasphemy, blasphemousness, profanity, profaneness, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, desecration; irreligion, undevoutness, ungodliness, unholiness.
irreverent, adj. 1. disrespectful, unrespectful, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite, incivil, uncivil; rude, impudent, impertinent, insolent, insulting.
2. impious, unpious, blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious, desecrative; irreligious, unreligious, indevout, undevout, ungodly, unholy.
irreversible, adj. 1. unreversible, indefeasible, un-annullable, irrevocable, unrevocable, unrepealable, ir-repealable, unrecallable; irrecoverable, unrecoverable, unregainable, irretrievable, irreclaimable, unreclaimable, irredeemable, unredeemable.
2. unchangeable, unalterable, untransmutable, incommutable, uncommutable, invariable; irreparable, unrestorable, unfixable, uncorrectable, unrectifiable;