What are the antonyms for ARTLESS?
- deceptive, processed, arch, faultless, knowing, sycophantic, shut, cynical, perfected, shifty, dishonest, close up, knavish, closed, finished, critical, complicated, intriguing, dissembling, exact, mistrustful, disingenuous, polished, pretentious, fold, contrived, guileful, close, wary, well-done, hypocritical, meticulous, smooth, slippery, artistic, sophisticated, calculating, underhanded, skeptical, unopen, precise, shut down, flattering, artful, close down, refined, cultivated, assuming, perfect, neat, cultured, skilled, worldly-wise, flawless, careful, suspicious, worldly, deceitful, crooked, civilized, cosmopolitan, diplomatic, Thesaurus:naive, dissimulating.
Synonyms for ARTLESS
- having two left hands,
- guileless,
- straight out,
- innocent,
- call a spade a spade,
- unskilled,
- sure enough,
- matter of fact,
- outspoken,
- inobnoxious,
- lay it on the line,
- having two left feet,
- unhewn,
- no fooling,
- unguarded,
- Plain-spoken,
- Unhandy,
- Unconversant,
- heart-to-heart,
- undeceitful,
- trustful,
- cornball,
- plain,
- plainspoken,
- Undesigning,
- naive,
- inadept,
- outgoing,
- uncool,
- candid,
- awkward,
- lay on the line,
- unvigilant,
- klutzy,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- transparent,
- callow,
- corn-fed,
- unspoilt,
- artless,
- open and shut,
- principled,
- un-reticent,
- Dead level,
- simple,
- extemporary,
- tenderfooted,
- Unhurtful,
- undeceiving,
- dead-level,
- straight shooting,
- unwatchful,
- unrefined,
- homely,
- on up and up,
- unstudied,
- upfront,
- being oneself,
- up-front,
- Unlabored,
- untutored,
- like a babe in the woods,
- on line,
- Uncircumspect,
- open,
- pretensionless,
- no nonsense,
- undistorted,
- unmalicious,
- straight from the shoulder,
- ingenuous,
- unproficient,
- unalert,
- roughly made,
- unassumed,
- unsophisticated,
- sincere,
- upstanding,
- wide-eyed,
- unaffected,
- clear cut,
- careless,
- wellmeant,
- genuine,
- unfacile,
- fresh,
- uncultured,
- inept,
- unrestrained,
- undisguised,
- uncalculating,
- undeceptive,
- unreflective,
- Hurtless,
- straight-out,
- Inartificial,
- laid back,
- natural,
- Undissembled,
- all thumbs,
- downright,
- well-meant,
- untaught,
- decent,
- recognizable,
- cornfed,
- broad,
- single-minded,
- unmannered,
- man-to-man,
- pointblank,
- homespun,
- unpretended,
- Unbeguiling,
- good,
- uncontrived,
- trusting,
- unexaggerated,
- unworldly,
- common,
- childlike,
- unreticent,
- overt,
- Unartificial,
- babe in woods,
- rude,
- blunt,
- fine,
- Kidder,
- Unartful,
- easily seen,
- self-explanatory,
- straight-shooting,
- saying what one thinks,
- honest,
- calling spade a spade,
- unpolished,
- unadorned,
- on the line,
- Uninjurious,
- laying it on the line,
- bare-faced,
- from the hip,
- twenty-four carat,
- straightforward,
- unembarrassed,
- simplehearted,
- inartistic,
- unfamiliar,
- direct,
- undexterous,
- rustic,
- unsuspicious,
- well-intentioned,
- uncultivated,
- offenseless,
- frank,
- singleminded,
- irreproachable,
- innoxious,
- un-artificial.
Usage Examples for ARTLESS
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With my usual artless candor I related to him exactly what I had heard; and I remember that one day, having told him I had heard many persons remark that the continuation of the last wars which had been so fatal to us was generally attributed to the Duke of Bassano, " They do poor Maret gross injustice," said he. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte" by Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
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Her tears and intreaties spoke the artless energy of sorrow. - "A Sicilian Romance" by Ann Radcliffe
