Entry Word: guileless

Function: adjective

Meaning: free from any intent to deceive or impress others <she was an easy-going, guileless young woman who was comfortable just being herself>

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

Related Words childlike, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly; unforced, unstudied; candid, frank, free, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded; trustful, trusting

Phrases on the level

Near Antonyms sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise; crooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, two-faced; arch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, tricky, underhanded, wily; flattering, mealymouthed, smooth, sycophantic, unctuous; feigned, forced, strained

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