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artless Definition

art·less (ärt′lis)

adjective

  1. lacking skill or art
  2. uncultured; ignorant
  3. not artistic; clumsy; crude
  4. without artificiality; simple; natural
  5. without guile or deceit; ingenuous; innocent

artless Related Forms

art′·lessly adverb art′·less·ness noun

artless Synonyms

artless

modif.

simple, guileless, natural; see naive, natural. See syn. study atnaive.

artless Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • way: I was particularly delighted with her simple, artless way of talking, which in the city might have been taken for silliness.
  • creature: The good artless creature was inspired by a sort of gentle alarm for me.

Modifying Another Word

  • apparently: The apparently artless reappearance of images in different poems invests them with significance: they make a complex pattern across the collection.
  • so: Fox uses material ' so artless ' that the listener can hear each tone and how they are disposed.