artless
Meanings
Adjective
- characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
- simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
- "an artless manner"
- "artless elegance"
Adjective Satellite
- showing lack of art
- "an artless translation"
- (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
Adj
- Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
- Free of artificiality; natural.
- Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
- Poorly made or done; crude.
Origin / Etymology
From art + -less.
Synonyms
artless, born yesterday, childlike, clueless, credulous, cute, dewy-eyed, fleeceable, green, guileless, immature, ingenuous, innocent, jejune, Panglossian, Panglossic, quaint, simple, simple-hearted, simple-minded, starry-eyed, unaffected, uncultivated, uncultured, undesigning, unpretentious, unsophisticated, untested, unworldly, virgin, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed
Antonyms
affected, artful, disingenuous, mature, nuanced, pretentious, sophisticated, wily, worldly
Scrabble Score: 7
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