01 a. Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
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Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.“Artless of stars and of the moving sand.” — Dryden.
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Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.[R.]“Artless and massy pillars.” — T. Warton.
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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.