Artless

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit. See Synonyms at naive.
  • adj. Free of artificiality; natural: artless charm.
  • adj. Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
  • adj. Poorly made or done; crude.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
  • adj. Free of artificiality; natural.
  • adj. Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
  • adj. Poorly made or done; crude.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
  • adj. Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.
  • adj. Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Unskilful; wanting art, knowledge, or skill.
  • Without knowledge of art; ignorant of the fine arts.
  • Showing no artistic skill; inartistic; rude.
  • Free from guile, craft, or stratagem; simple; sincere; unaffected; undesigning; unsophisticated: as, an artless mind.
  • Synonyms Guileless, open, candid, frank, natural, unaffected, ingenuous, simple-minded, naıve, honest.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing lack of art
  • adj. simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
  • adj. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
  • adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
  • Equivalent
    unskilled    careless    unrefined    heart-to-heart    open    undistorted    candid   
    Cross Reference
    uncultured   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    open    frank    guileless    sincere    simple    unsophisticated    undesigning    candid    unaffected    ignorant   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ingenuous    childlike    naive    frank    unaffected    heartfelt    straightforward    unsophisticated    boyish    amiable