artless.

1. Open and natural rather than calculated or affected.

2. Lacking practiced skill, refinement, or artistic design.

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Words that belong together

• artless charm
• artless confession

On the page

Her artless confession disarmed the interviewer.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more artless; superlative most artless when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, description. Commonness: moderately common.