artless

natural, ingenuous, naive, unsophisticated, artless mean free from pretension or calculation. natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made world.

• • her unaffected, natural manner

ingenuous implies inability to disguise or conceal one's feelings or intentions.

• • the ingenuous enthusiasm of children

naive suggests lack of worldly wisdom often connoting credulousness and unchecked innocence.

• • politically naive

unsophisticated implies a lack of experience and training necessary for social ease and adroitness.

• • unsophisticated adolescents

artless suggests a naturalness resulting from unawareness of the effect one is producing on others.

• • artless charm