What is another word for artless?

Pronunciation: [ˈɑːtləs] (IPA)

Artless is an adjective that means lacking art, skill, or knowledge of a particular artistic technique. Synonyms for artless include unsophisticated, simple, plain, unpolished, crude, unrefined, naive, clumsy, unskillful, and inept. Artless can also mean lacking guile or deception, and in this context, synonyms include sincere, honest, straightforward, candid, frank, genuine, and unpretentious. Additionally, artless can be used to suggest naturalness or spontaneity, and in this sense, synonyms include uncontrived, unaffected, genuine, spontaneous, and uncalculated. Depending on the context in which it is used, artless can have either negative or positive connotations, and synonyms for it should be chosen accordingly.

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What are the hypernyms for Artless?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for artless?

Artless is a descriptive term that signifies someone or something which lacks artifice, refinement, or skillful execution. An antonym for artless would be artistic, indicating a high level of creativity, imagination, and aesthetic sensitivity. Other antonyms for artless could be sophisticated, elegant, polished, or graceful, all referring to the level of dexterity or mastery involved in the creation of beauty or the expression of ideas. Alternatively, one might use the words cunning, sly, or devious as antonyms for artless, implying a certain level of craftiness or manipulativeness in one's actions or words. Ultimately, the antonym for artless will depend on the context, tone, and intended meaning of the sentence in which it is used.

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Usage examples for Artless

Two or three other soldiers were there, in whose artless talk McPhail joined lustily.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
"He's a writer," observed this artless maiden, in mysterious tones.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
But, at the gorge of this valley, there stood a sort of watch-tower, as if to guard the entrance, so like a work of art, that even here, where men and kangaroos were equally wild and artless, I was obliged to look very attentively, to be quite convinced that the tower was the work of nature only.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell

Famous quotes with Artless

  • So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
    William Shakespeare
  • As long as I can remember, I have suffered because of the great misery I saw in the world. I never really knew the artless, youthful joy of living, and I believe that many children feel this way, even when outwardly they seem to be wholly happy and without a single care.
    Albert Schweitzer
  • Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become.
    Robert Frost
  • A few months ago I read an interview with a critic; a well-known critic; an unusually humane and intelligent critic. The interviewer had just said that the critic “sounded like a happy man”, and the interview was drawing to a close; the critic said, ending it all: “I read, but I don’t get any time to read at whim. All the reading I do is in order to write or teach, and I resent it. We have no TV, and I don’t listen to the radio or records, or go to art galleries or the theater. I’m a completely negative personality.” As I thought of that busy, artless life—no records, no paintings, no plays, no books except those you lecture on or write articles about—I was so depressed that I went back over the interview looking for some bright spot, and I found it, one beautiful sentence: for a moment I had left the gray, dutiful world of the professional critic, and was back in the sunlight and shadow, the unconsidered joys, the unreasoned sorrows, of ordinary readers and writers, amateurishly reading and writing “at whim”. The critic said that once a year he read , it was plain, at whim: not to teach, not to criticize, just for love—he read it, as Kipling wrote it, just because he liked to, wanted to, couldn’t help himself. To him it wasn’t a means to a lecture or an article, it was an end; he read it not for anything he could get out of it, but for itself. And isn’t this what the work of art demands of us? The work of art, Rilke said, says to us always: . It demands of us that we too see things as ends, not as means—that we too know them and love them for their own sake. This change is beyond us, perhaps, during the active, greedy, and powerful hours of our lives, but during the contemplative and sympathetic hours of our reading, our listening, our looking, it is surely within our power, if we choose to make it so, if we choose to let one part of our nature follow its natural desires. So I say to you, for a closing sentence:
    Randall Jarrell
  • Such was Gods Poem, this Worlds new Essay; So wild and rude in its first draught it lay; Th' ungovern'd parts no Correspondence knew, An artless war from thwarting Motions grew; Till they to Number and fixt Rules were brought By the eternal Minds Poetique Thought. Water and Air he for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Flame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturns string a touch more soft and grave. The motions Strait, and Round, and Swift, and Slow, And Short, and Long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd Dance of All.
    Abraham Cowley

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