| 单词 | artless |
| 释义 | artless (once / 2113 pages) 1adj 2adj Yes, artless could mean lacking in art, but more often it means lacking in superficiality or deceit. An artless person could never make a living as a con artist. Originally meaning "unskillful" or "uncultured," artless evolved into meaning not skilled or cultured in the art of deceit. If you are artless, you are natural and uncontrived. Young people, animals, the socially inept — these can all be artless in the way they express themselves. They seem to mean exactly what they say. WORD FAMILYartless: artlessly, artlessness+/art: artist, artless, arts, arty/artist: artistic, artistry, artists/artistic: artistically, inartistic, unartistic/artistry: artistries/artlessness: artlessnesses/arty: artier, artiest, artily/inartistic: inartistically/unartistic: unartistically USAGE EXAMPLESOr perhaps not, because his sculpting of the countryside seems so artless that it is often unnoticed. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) “This festival teaches even the little children, artless and simple, to be greedy,” as one critic put it. Slate(Dec 05, 2016) Bliss’s light tenor worked beautifully in a Britten set, too, especially the artless simplicity of “The Last Rose of Summer.” Washington Post(Nov 16, 2016) 1 1adj simple and natural; without cunning or deceit an artless manner artless elegance Syn|Ant careless effortless and unstudied naturalin accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature artful marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft adroitquick or skillful or adept in action or thought crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wilymarked by skill in deception cute, preciousobviously contrived to charm designing, schemingconcealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest deepexhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy elusiveskillful at eluding capture manipulativeskillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage pawkycunning and sly 2adj characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious 2Syn|Ant ingenuous candid, heart-to-heart, open openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness undistortedwithout alteration or misrepresentation sincereopen and genuine; not deceitful naif, naivemarked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience artful, disingenuous not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twistedhaving an intended meaning altered or misrepresented insincerelacking sincerity 1adj (of persons) lacking art or knowledge Syn uncultivated, uncultured unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth 2adj showing lack of art an artless translation Syn unskilled not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency |
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