artless

Adjective

• Without guile or deception; natural and simple.
• 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.

Examples

• His artless strategy of just playing the highest score available eventually failed him.
• This pendant has artless charm.

Synonyms

ingenuous, uncultivated, uncultured, Panglossian, Panglossic, artless, born yesterday, callow, childlike, clueless, credulous, cute, dewy-eyed, fleeceable, green, guileless, immature, innocent, jejune, quaint, simple, simple-hearted, simple-minded, starry-eyed, unaffected, undesigning, unpretentious, unsophisticated, untested, unworldly, virgin, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed

Antonyms

artful, disingenuous, affected, mature, nuanced, pretentious, sophisticated, wily, worldly

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