Artless

//ˈɑɹt.lɪs//

Synonyms for "artless" (163 found)

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Closest matches (33)

ingenuous unskilled above-board aboveboard arty awkward befoolable big bluff blunt born yesterday broad brusque bungling camp candid careless childlike clumsy confiding

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crude direct downright explicit foolable

Adjective(8 words)

born yesterday callow childlike clueless credulous cute dewy-eyed fleeceable

Strong matches (49)

forthright frank frankhearted free free spoken free-speaking free-spoken free-tongued fresh genuine green guileless gullible half assed half-assed heart-to-heart high-sounding honest honorable humble

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imposing in the raw inadept inapt inartificial inattentive incompetent inefficient inept inexperienced inexpert ingenu innocent mediocre naive native natural on the level open openhearted ordinary outspoken

Adjective(6 words)

green guileless immature ingenuous innocent jejune

Adjective(1 words)

ingenuous

Related words (81)

overblown pedestrian plain plain spoken plain-spoken poor primitive pristine relaxed round rude rustic simple simplehearted simpleminded sincere single minded single-hearted single-minded skill less

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Adjective(17 words)

panglossian panglossic quaint simple simple-hearted simple-minded starry-eyed unaffected undesigning unpretentious unsophisticated untested unworldly verdant virgin wet behind the ears wide-eyed

Adjective(2 words)

uncultivated uncultured

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

artful

Synonyms

2 entries

ingenuous uncultured

derived

2 entries

artlessly artlessness

derived from

1 entries

art

related to

12 entries

art artificiality crude cunning deceit guile ignorant knowledge natural poorly skill uncultured

similar

15 entries

candid careless heart-to-heart honest honorable naif naive natural open sincere undistorted unrefined unskilled

Translations

20 translations across 8 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

естествен adj (natural)
непринуден adj (natural)

Czech

4 entries

bezelstný adj (without guile or cunning)
nestrojený adj (natural)
neumělý adj (poorly made, crude)
prostý adj (natural)

Esperanto

4 entries

naiva adj (without guile or cunning)
senarta adj (natural)
senartifika adj (without guile or cunning)
simplanima adj (without guile or cunning)

Irish

1 entries

soineanta adj (without guile or cunning)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

ساده adj (without guile or cunning)
طوی adj (without guile or cunning)

Persian

2 entries

بیدغل adj (without guile or cunning)
بیشیلهپیله adj (without guile or cunning)

Russian

1 entries

бесхи́тростный adj (without guile or cunning)

Spanish

2 entries

cándido adj (without guile or cunning)
natural adj (natural)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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They are all artless children.

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Hers was truly an artless, unsophisticated kiss, and yet it was well calculated to inflame a young man's heart.

Source: tatoeba (6212450)

Tom's diatribe was an artless attempt at persuading the others.

Source: tatoeba (10268245)

Your artless attempt at a treatise is more like a diatribe.

Source: tatoeba (10268250)

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