artless

adj

1. open, open and sincere, open-hearted, ingenuous, guileless, genuine, sincere, undeceptive, undeceitful, undeceiving, unfeigning, undissembling, undissimulating; aboveboard, open and aboveboard, up front, up and up, on the level, no-nonsense; natural, uncontrived, unaffected, unassuming, unadorned, unpretentious, unpretending.

2. candid, frank, forthright, foursquare, straightforward, straight-from-the-shoulder; plain, plain-spoken, plain-speaking, downright, outright, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, undisguised, Inf. straight-out, Inf. flat-footed, Inf. matter-of-fact.

3. naive, simple, simple-minded, innocent, childlike; unsophisticated, undeveloped, unworldly, green, raw, born-yesterday, wet behind the ears; unsuspicious, trustful, trusting, unwary, unguarded.

4. inartistic, unartistic, unaesthetic; amateurish, crude, clumsy, awkward, badly or poorly made or constructed.

5. unskillful, inexpert, unproficient, unclever; undexterous, inadept, undeft, unfacile; unaccomplished, unskilled, untrained, untaught, untutored, unprepared; ungifted, untalented, unendowed.