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artless
Synonyms and Antonyms of artless
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free from any intent to deceive or impress others
genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious
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
exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, unwary
on the level
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
affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious
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hastily or roughly constructed
Synonym Discussion of artless
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- her unaffected, natural manner
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- the ingenuous enthusiasm of children
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- politically naive
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- unsophisticated adolescents
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- artless charm
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