单词 | unartful |
释义 | unartfuladj. 1. a. Not artificial or contrived; artless. 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 1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest iii. 32 I'm sure unartful truth lies open In her mind, as Crystal streams their sandy bottom show. 1693 W. Congreve tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xi. 228 A chearful Sweetness, in his Looks he has, And Innocence unartful in his Face. 1713 Guard. No. 127 Crt. Venus 70 Unartful Tears, and hectick Looks, that show With silent Eloquence the Lover's Woe. 1763 Falconer Fond Lover 14 Since all her thoughts by sense refined, Unartful truth express. 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 147 Much less can it be affirmed, that it [sc. spunging] is an unartful art. 1899 A. W. Verrall in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson I. 219 The same delightful and unartful arts were displayed. b. Free from artifice or cunning. 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 1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent ii. ii. 596 This Son, if Fame mistakes not, is more hot, More open, and unartful. 2. a. Displaying no technical skill; inartistic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > not displaying technical skill unartificial1591 inartificial1609 unartful1675 unartistlike1757 skilless1830 1675 E. Cocker Morals 49 Rashness draws crooked and unartful Lines. 1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients ix. 52 Beneath this humble Roof he stood, and this plain unartful Floor supported him. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation iii. 118 So full of Faults is all th' unartful Frame. 1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 3 Nov. 155 To have almost every personage on the scene almost of the same character..was unartful in the poet to the last degree. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Nov. 4/2 Prose which borrows in a manner pleasant enough in result, and by no means unartful, the more obvious and seductive attractions of verse. b. Of persons: Unskilful, maladroit. rare. 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 1683 A. Behn Young King ii. iii. 24 I am a man, whose martial disposition Renders unartful in my Language. 1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe II. 82 A swift and sure Contempt succeeds upon what-ever the unartful Husband shall happen to do after. Derivatives unˈartfully adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adverb] uncraftily1519 unexpertly1565 unskilfully1565 ill1579 fumblingly1598 unskilly1648 unartfully1724 inexpertly1822 1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 30 The Report, which although it be not unartfully drawn,..yet there was no great Skill required to detect the many Mistakes..in it. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. ii. 21 Matts of Straw, not unartfully made. 1793 Minstrel III. 137 I discovered a door, not unartfully concealed by some rude chizeling in the rock. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Pict. Rhapsody 116 This plan has been not unartfully contrived. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < |
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