artless
Yes, artless could mean lacking in art, but more often it means lacking in superficiality or deceit. An artless person could never make a living as a con artist.
Originally meaning "unskillful" or "uncultured," artless evolved into meaning not skilled or cultured in the art of deceit. If you are artless, you are natural and uncontrived. Young people, animals, the socially inept — these can all be artless in the way they express themselves. They seem to mean exactly what they say.
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simple and natural; without cunning or deceit“an artless manner”“artless elegance”
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Synonyms:
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careless
effortless and unstudied
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natural
in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature
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Antonyms:
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artful
marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
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adroit
quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
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crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
marked by skill in deception
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cute, precious
obviously contrived to charm
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designing, scheming
concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest
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deep
exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
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elusive
skillful at eluding capture
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manipulative
skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage
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pawky
cunning and sly
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careless
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characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
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synonyms:
ingenuous
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candid, heart-to-heart, open
openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness
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undistorted
without alteration or misrepresentation
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sincere
open and genuine; not deceitful
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naif, naive
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
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Antonyms:
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artful, disingenuous
not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
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distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted
having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
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insincere
lacking sincerity
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candid, heart-to-heart, open
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(of persons) lacking art or knowledge
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synonyms:
uncultivated, uncultured
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unrefined
(used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth
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unrefined
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showing lack of art“an artless translation”
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Synonyms:
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unskilled
not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
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unskilled
Vocabulary lists containing artless
This list of warm-up words features common words on the test that you're probably familiar with. Brush up on these words first to make sure that you start off strong while taking the GRE.
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