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- free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous: an artless child.
- not artificial; natural; simple; uncontrived: artless beauty; artless charm.
- lacking art, knowledge, or skill.
- poorly made; inartistic; clumsy; crude: an artless translation.
adjective
- free from deceit, guile, or artfulness; ingenuousan artless remark
- natural, without artifice; unpretentiousartless elegance
- without art or skill
1580s, “unskillful,” from art (n.) + -less. Later also “uncultured” (1590s); then “unartificial, natural” (1670s) and “guileless, ingenuous” (1714). Related: Artlessly; artlessness.