unartificialadj.
1. Not displaying special art or skill; unskilful, inartistic, clumsy. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > not displaying technical skill
unartificial1591
inartificial1609
unartful1675
unartistlike1757
skilless1830
1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶vijv If I shold confesse..that my verse is vnartificiall, the stile rude, the phrase barbarous.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 80 It is an vnartificiall kinde of descanting in the middle of a lesson, to let the plainsong sing alone.
1602 T. Campion Obseruations Art Eng. Poesie sig. A3v The vulgar and vnarteficiall custome of riming.
1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus iii. 154 The Common-Places and suggestions of your Advocates for Pleasure are, at best, but very Shallow and Unartificial.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 275 They have levelled and crushed together all the orders which they found, even under the coarse unartificial arrangement of the monarchy. View more context for this quotation
1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 204 Art and science, on the one hand, and unartificial practice and unscientific knowledge, on the other.
2. Not artificial; simple, natural.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > not contrived or artificial
unartificial1603
artless1622
unarted1628
inartificial1656
unartful1670
unaffected1712
unstrained1748
unmannered1804
unschooled1815
wilding1884
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adjective] > in natural state
unartificial1603
undistorted1647
unpalliated1680
unwrested1771
unsophistical1846
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adjective]
aefauldOE
trueOE
true as steela1300
throlya1375
entirec1380
faithfula1382
entirelyc1400
single1519
sincere1533
sincere1539
simple-minded1556
Dunstable?1565
truthful?1567
single-hearted1574
single-minded1577
sound1580
downright1584
unaffected1592
real1597
plain-hearted1601
unartificial1603
free1619
honest1634
fair and square1636
round-dealing1642
wholehearted1657
down flata1663
well-designing1670
heart-whole1684
single-eyed1705
unsanctimoniousa1797
natural1825
bona fide1827
unfallacious1827
jannock1828
forthcoming1835
up and down1836
bonified1840
forthgoing1851
unhypocritical1854
forthright1855
upstanding1863
on the level1872
genuine1890
for real1954
upfront1967
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xii. 628 It representeth in an vn-artificiall boldnesse, and infantine securitie, the pure impression and first ignorance of..nature.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. lxxvii. 100 Men who live in sincerity.., with an undisguised and unartificial goodness.
1799 Monthly Rev. 30 345 Example arising from a natural unartificial developement of incidents.
1982 Notes & Queries Aug. 361/2 He demonstrates that Wordsworth considered a good epitaph to be an expression in unartificial language of the deep feelings of the bereaved for the dead.
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