What does artlessly mean?

artlessly means "in a crude and unskilled manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in artlessly?

artlessly has 3 syllables: art-les-sly. The stress falls on "art".

What is another word for artlessly?

Close synonyms include crudely, inexpertly, ingenuously. 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.

Is artlessly a common word?

artlessly 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.

artlessly — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adverb

2 sensesA word that modifies a verb, adjective or other adverb.

1.
in a crude and unskilled manner
“an inexpertly constructed lean-to”
Synonymscrudely inexpertly
2.
in an ingenuous manner
“she answered the judge's questions artlessly”
Synonymsingenuously

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What does artlessly mean?: artlessly means "in a crude and unskilled manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.
How many syllables are in artlessly?

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