artless

art·less

adj \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

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Rhymes with ARTLESS

heartless