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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: free of deceit [syn: guileless, transparent]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1616 innocent, naive • guilelessly adverb • guilelessness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Guileless Guile"less, a. Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv. Guile"less*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as guileless, you mean that they behave openly and truthfully and do not try to deceive people. (WRITTEN) Daphne was so guileless that Claire had no option but to believe her. ADJ [approval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Artless, honest, sincere, undesigning, unsophisticated, frank, pure, truthful, candid, ingenuous, open, straightforward, single-minded, open-hearted, simple-hearted, simple-minded.

Moby Thesaurus

artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike, confiding, credulous, dependent, depending, direct, frank, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, trustful, trusting, trusty, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unbeguileful, unbeguiling, uncalculating, undeceitful, undeceiving, undeceptive, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulated, undissimulating, unfeigned, unfeigning, unflattering, unguarded, unpretended, unpretending, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untrimmed, untutored, unvarnished, unwary, without suspicion