单词 | artless |
释义 | artlessadj. 1. Devoid of skill or art. a. Unpractised, inexperienced; unskilled, ignorant. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] craftlessOE unslyc1275 unexperta1425 incrafty?1520 imperite?1550 unskilful1565 skilless1573 artless1586 inexpert1598 unarted1603 boisterous1609 unhandsomea1616 unwieldy1666 unartful1683 undexterous1688 unaccomplished1709 not so (also not too) hot1845 rotten1867 one-fingered1868 button pushing1896 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. i. i. 1 Thou high Director of the same assist my Artlesse pen. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Eiiv The artlesse tongue of a tedious dolt. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 20 So full of artlesse iealousie is guilt, It spills it selfe, in fearing to be spylt. View more context for this quotation 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vii. 1184 Such artlesse riders, that they cannot sit them. 1647 R. Herrick Letanie to Holy Spirit in Noble Numbers 11 When the artlesse Doctor sees No one hope, but of his Fees And his skill runs on the lees; Sweet Spirit comfort me! 1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin 20 His Artless Novice-hand he lends. 1747 S. Johnson Plan Dict. 1 The work in which I engaged is generally considered..as the proper toil of artless industry. 1755 S. Johnson Hist. Eng. Lang. sig. D, in Dict. Eng. Lang. Their speech..must have been artless and unconnected, without any modes of transition or involution of clauses. 1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 124 The artless artists seem to have worked on, from arch to arch..without a thought..of economising their space. 1954 New Eng. Q. 27 332 Skilled in turning the words of an artless man to party uses. 2001 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 27 May 5 An artless warrior who bludgeoned better generals into surrender by means of ruthless slaughter. b. Devoid of the fine or liberal arts; having no desire for or endeavour after artistic effect; uncultured. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective] rudea1382 roida1400 borel1513 rustical?1532 illiberal1535 waste?1541 rusticc1550 illiterate1556 ruggedc1565 profane1568 unskilful1572 raw?1573 clownish1581 home-born1589 rough-hewn1593 unpolished1594 artless1598 home-bred1602 unbevelled1602 incult1628 museless1644 uncultivated1646 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 incultivate1661 unpolite1674 uncult1675 repent1684 uncultivated1725 uncultured1777 unenlightened1792 cultureless1824 sloven1856 philistinic1869 undoctrined1869 Philistine1871 Philistinish1871 roughneck1906 lowbrow1907 low-level1916 no-brow1922 bohunk1957 bakya1960 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. Proem. sig. D8 Seeking conceits to sute these Artlesse times. 1636 J. Ballard in Ann. Dubrensia sig. E4 The rugged Poem of an Art-lesse Muse. 1737 H. Baker tr. Virgil in Medulla Poetarum Romanorum II. 213 Before that Time Life was an artless State, Of Reason void, and thoughtless in Debate. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 46 The most dry and artless historians are in general the most authentic. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 216 A shadowy life—artless, joyless, loveless. No devices in that darkness of the grave. 1976 J. D. Andrew Major Film Theories vi. 168 The realistic filmmaker is not an artless man, though his film may appear devoid of artiness. 2002 MX (Melbourne) (Nexis) 20 June 20 Artless taggers dogging all of us. 2. a. Free from artifice; natural, simple. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > not contrived or artificial unartificial1603 artless1622 unarted1628 inartificial1656 unartful1670 unaffected1712 unstrained1748 unmannered1804 unschooled1815 wilding1884 1622 G. Wither Iuuenilia Pref. sig. ¶v Many men will leaue a pruned Groue..to goe see, What pleasures in vntilled Mountaines be: And much delight in Woods to take the shade, Of Artlesse Arbors, by rude Nature made. 1672 J. Dryden in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 348 Such Artless beauty lies in Shakespears wit. 1705 E. Arwaker Birth-night 4 Am'rous Pairs in Rosie Garlands crown'd, On Moss-green Carpets dance an artless Round. 1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote I. i. ii. 8 Curls, which had so much the appearance of being artless, that all but her maid..imagined they were so. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iv. 169 The Doctrines of the Gospel were artless and plain. 1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 322 Sublime their artless locks they wear. 1852 A. Jameson Legends Madonna 152 The same artless grace, the same dramatic grouping. 1934 G. Heyer Convenient Marriage i. 2 The three Misses Winwood were grouped by the window, presenting an artless and agreeable picture. 2005 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 14 Apr. 18 Craftsman spider has spun her silken web with artless grace. b. Without guile; sincere, ingenuous. (Now the usual sense.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent simple?c1225 innocenta1382 simple-hearted?c1425 unsubtlea1500 indolec1550 naïfc1598 sacklessa1600 plain-hearted1601 unnooked1602 unguileful1604 onefold1606 naivea1614 innocentious1624 innocential1628 excuseless1640 uncrafty1647 craftless1650 ingenuousa1662 innocentive1661 unartful1703 artless1714 ingénue1848 blue-eyed1903 1714 E. Budgell Spectator No. 605. ⁋9 Imitation is a kind of artless Flattery. 1739 G. Ogle Gualtherus & Griselda 23 An artless Mind, Unpractis'd in the Trains of Womankind. 1766 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 247 The artless people drank in every word. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall v. 43 The delightful blushing consciousness of an artless girl. 1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey i. 34 His artless piety and simple goodness. 1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. iii. 70 He may indeed pet, flatter, and indulge her as he would a grown daughter, and appreciate her artless innocence and girlish light-heartedness. 1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils iii. 18 Her artless questions led to further meetings..in the very house he had been burgling. 2007 Independent Extra (Nexis) 12 June What was amazing was not the deranged lewdness of her performance, but the sweet, artless way she smiled at the end. 3. Constructed or designed without skill or art; crude, clumsy, inartistic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > unskilfully made or done > rough or crude gross1513 incult1599 infabricated1623 rough1680 artless1695 crude1786 blockish1880 hairy1914 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 150 That there is any thing incommodious and Artless..in the Globe. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 110 Brogues, a kind of artless shoes. 1782 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (1783) 62 Had it been a practice of the Saxons to set up these assemblages of artless and massy pillars, more specimens would have remained. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iv. 91 They enclose..an artless stone vault. 1924 A. Woollcott Enchanted Aisles ii. 205 It is an unbelievably gauche and artless play. 1976 E. Fromm To have or to Be? (1979) i. ii. 43 Reading an artless, cheap novel is a form of day-dreaming. 1999 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 5 Feb. e4 Anybody could have come up with something as good as this pointless, charmless, artless bore, a film so unrelentingly blah it's not even fun kicking it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1586 |
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