- 1. a. Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. Source: opted
- 2. a. Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. Source: opted
- 3. a. Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. Source: opted
- 4. adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. simple and natural; without cunning or deceit Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. showing lack of art Source: wordnet
- 7. adj. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge Source: wordnet
- 8. 1. Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden. 2. Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. [R.] Artless and massy pillars. T. Warton. 3. Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! Cowper. Syn. -- Simple; unaffected; sincere; undesigning; guileless; unsophisticated; open; frank; candid. Source: webster
- 9. j:100 a. simple and natural; without cunning or deceit s. showing lack of art s. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge Source: ecdict
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