artless

art·less

adjective \ˈärt-ləs\

Definition of ARTLESS

1

: lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured <an artless brute>

2

a : made without skill : crude <an artless attempt to win votes>

b : free from artificiality : natural <artless grace>

3

: free from guile or craft : sincerely simple <an artless young woman>

— art·less·ly adverb

— art·less·ness noun

Examples of ARTLESS

1. Her simple artless charm won us over instantly.
2. <a genuine and artless girl>

First Known Use of ARTLESS

1589

Related to ARTLESS

Synonyms

guileless, genuine, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious

Antonyms

affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious

Related Words

childlike, dewy-eyed, gee-whiz, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, persuasible, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed; spontaneous, unforced, unstudied; candid, direct, frank, free, free-spoken, open, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded, straight, straightforward, unguarded; trustful, trusting; exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, unwary

Near Antonyms

critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, wary; cosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise; civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined; crooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, manipulative, two-faced; arch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knavish, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, subtle, tricky, underhanded, wily; flattering, mealymouthed, smooth, sycophantic, unctuous; feigned, forced, strained

See Synonym Discussion at natural

Rhymes with ARTLESS

heartless