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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Artless \Art"less\, adjective
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
artless
adjective
1: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" [syn: {ingenuous}] [ant: {disingenuous}]
2: simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance" [ant: {artful}]
3: showing lack of art; "an artless translation"
4: (of persons) lacking art or knowledge [syn: {uncultivated}, {uncultured}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "artless": aboveboard, arty, awkward, befoolable, big, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, broad, brusque, bungling, candid, childlike, clumsy, confiding, crude, direct, downright, explicit, foolable, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, green, guileless, gullible, half-assed, heart-to-heart, high-sounding, honest, humble, imposing, in the raw, inadept, inapt, inartificial, inattentive, incompetent, inefficient, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, mediocre, naive, native, natural, on the level, open, openhearted, ordinary, outspoken, overblown, pedestrian, plain, plain-spoken, poor, primitive, pristine, relaxed, round, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, skill-less, straight, straight-out, straightforward, thoughtless, transparent, true, trustful, trusting, unaffected, unapt, unartificial, unassuming, unchecked, uncomplicated, unconstrained, undeceptive, undeft, undexterous, undextrous, unequivocal, unfacile, unguarded, unintelligent, unpretentious, unproficient, unreserved, unrestrained, unschooled, unskilled, unskillful, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsullied, unsuspicious, untalented, untouched, unwary, virgin, virginal
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