Word familyadjectiveartfulartlessartyarty-fartyadverbartfullyartlesslynounartfulnessartinessartlessnessart formarthouseartsmanartworkart
art·less /ˈɑːtləs $ ˈɑːrt-/adjectiveadj
1HONEST literary natural, honest, and sincere 天真自然的,纯朴的;不造作的
artless sincerity
天真烂漫
2formal made or done without any skill 拙劣的
an artless copy of European art
对欧洲艺术的拙劣模仿
—artlesslyadverbadv
—artlessness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
artless• They had all slept heavily, the sleep if not of the just, of the innocent and artless.• The page is a young man of color who raps in crushingly artless rhymes.• Am I being artless when I say that?• a naive, artless young woman