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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for artless:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
artless
    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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Artless \Art"less\, a.
   1. Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
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            Artless of stars and of the moving sand. --Dryden.
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   2. Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. [R.]
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            Artless and massy pillars.            --T. Warton.
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   3. Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized
      by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless;
      ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.
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            They were plain, artless men, without the least
            appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them.
                                                  --Porteus.
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            O, how unlike the complex works of man,
            Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! --Cowper.
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   Syn: Simple; unaffected; sincere; undesigning; guileless;
        unsophisticated; open; frank; candid.
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