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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

'ARTLESS, a.
1. Unskillful; wanting art, knowledge or skill.
2. Free from guile, art, craft or stratagem; simple; sincere; unaffected; undesigning; as an artless mind.
3. Contrived without skill or art; as an artless tale.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" [syn: ingenuous, artless] [ant: artful, 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: artless, uncultivated, uncultured]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1589 1. lacking art, knowledge, or skill ; uncultured <an artless brute> 2. a. made without skill ; crude <an artless attempt to win votes> b. free from artificiality ; natural <artless grace> 3. free from guile or craft ; sincerely simple <an artless young woman> Synonyms: see natural • artlessly adverb • artlessness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 guileless, ingenuous. 2 not resulting from or displaying art. 3 clumsy. Derivatives: artlessly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Artless Art"less, a. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is artless is simple and honest, and does not think of deceiving other people. She was curiously artless. ...Hemingway's artless air and charming smile. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Ignorant, unlearned, untaught, unskilful, rude. [Usually followed by of.] 2. Inartificial, simple, natural, plain, unadorned, without marks of art. 3. Unaffected, plain, honest, frank, fair, open, candid, naive, guileless, simple, sincere, true, unsophisticated, ingenuous, undesigning, truthful, trustful, unsuspicious, confiding, single-minded, simple-hearted, simple-minded, open-hearted, straightforward.

Moby Thesaurus

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