artless

Other forms of artless

comparative

artlesser·

superlative

artlessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about artless

What does artless mean?

artless means "characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in artless?

artless has 2 syllables: art-less. The stress falls on "art".

What is another word for artless?

Close synonyms include ingenuous, uncultivated, uncultured. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of artless?

The recorded antonyms are artful.

Is artless a common word?

artless is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.