Crossword clues for artless
artless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Artless \Art"less\, a.
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Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
Artless of stars and of the moving sand.
--Dryden. -
Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. [R.]
Artless and massy pillars.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "unskillful," from art (n.) + -less. Later also "uncultured" (1590s); then "unartificial, natural" (1670s) and "guileless, ingenuous" (1714). Related: Artlessly; artlessness.\n
Wiktionary
a. Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
WordNet
adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" [syn: ingenuous] [ant: disingenuous]
simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance" [ant: artful]
showing lack of art; "an artless translation"
(of persons) lacking art or knowledge [syn: uncultivated, uncultured]
Usage examples of "artless".
This young girl, whose mind had not been refined by study, aimed at being considered innocent and artless, and she did her best to succeed, but I had seen too good a specimen of her cleverness.
The meaner bards accompanied the artless luxury of the feast with the symphony of their harps.
Oppressed with these feelings, Roderic was accustomed to withdraw himself from the pomps and luxuries that surrounded him, to fly from the gilded palace and the fretted roofs, and to mix in the simple and undebauched scenes of artless innocence that descended on every side from the hills he inhabited.
Her artless dalliance and grace-- The joy that lighted up her brow-- The sweet expression of her face-- Her form--it stands before me now!
With the fresh feelings of the olden times, I hear them now upon a foreign shore-- The simple music and the artless rhymes!
Edwin had received from nature the gift of an honest and artless eloquence.
It is not for an artless and uninstructed shepherdess to defeat my wiles and baffle all my incitements.
In her I will hope to find those simple, artless, and engaging charms, which in vain I have often sought in the band of females, that reside beneath my roof, and wait upon my nod.
At length one of them slipped out, and hastened to acquaint Roderic with the impatience of his prize, and to communicate to him the substance of those artless hints, which, in the hands of so skilful and potent an impostor, might be of the greatest service.
The more she exerted herself to bend his resolution, and the more scope she gave to the unstudied expression of her artless sentiments, the more inextricably was the magician caught, and the more firm and inexorable was his purpose.
It was only by summoning up all the fierceness of his temper, all the impatience of his passions, and all the mistaken haughtiness and inflexibility of his purpose, that he could resist the artless enchantment.
The young girl leaned forward in her chair with an attention so breathless, a sympathy so quick, and an admiration so artless and unconscious that in an instant she divided with the speaker the attention of the whole assemblage.
The two children were equally timid and artless, and equally infatuated with each other.
The apparently innocent and artless young girl possessed the parched, hollow soul of an experienced woman of the world, or of an old courtier.
This smiling young girl, who seemed such an artless child, had gained an absolute control over him.