| Main Entry: | artless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple |
Synonyms: |
direct, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, plain, pure, sincere, straight, straightforward, talking turkey, true, unadorned, unaffected, uncontrived, unpretentious, unsophisticated, up front |
Antonyms: |
artful, complicated, contrived, pretentious, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, inelegant |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful |
Antonyms: |
adroit, artful, dexterous, elegant, graceful, handy, skillful |
| Main Entry: | childlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innocent, naive |
Synonyms: |
artless, childish, credulous, guileless, immature, ingenuous, natural, simple, spontaneous, trustful, trusting, unaffected, unfeigned |
| Notes: | childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior |
Antonyms: |
complicated, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | frank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | completely honest |
Synonyms: |
aboveboard, apparent, artless, bare-faced, blunt, bold, brazen, call a spade a spade, candid, direct, downright, easy, familiar, flat-out, forthright, free, from the hip, guileless, heart-to-heart, ingenuous, lay it on the line, like it is, matter-of-fact, naive, natural, open, outright, outspoken, plain, plain-spoken, real, saying what one thinks, scrupulous, sincere, straight, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unconcealed, undisguised, uninhibited, unreserved, unrestricted, up front, upright |
Antonyms: |
devious, dishonest, evasive, insincere, secretive |
| Main Entry: | fresh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexperienced |
Synonyms: |
artless, callow, green*, natural, new, raw, tenderfooted, uncultivated, unpracticed, unskilled, untrained, untried, unversed, young, youthful |
Antonyms: |
experienced |
| Main Entry: | genuine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaffected; honest |
Synonyms: |
actual, artless, candid, earnest, frank, heartfelt, known, natural, open, positive, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, true, trustworthy, undesigning, unfeigned, unimpeachable, unpretended, unquestionable, up front, valid, well-established |
Antonyms: |
affected, deceiving, deceptive, dishonest, insincere, misleading |
| Main Entry: | guileless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest |
Synonyms: |
aboveboard, artless, candid, frank, genuine, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, simple, simple-minded, sincere, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, undesigning, unsophisticated, unstudied |
Antonyms: |
artful, clever, crafty, cunning, deceitful, dishonest, guileful, tricky |
| Main Entry: | inept |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, unskilled; incompetent |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, artless, awkward, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, gauche, halting, inadept, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inexpert, loser, maladroit, unapt, undexterous, unfacile, ungraceful, unhandy, unproficient, unskillful, wooden |
Antonyms: |
able, adroit, competent, dexterous, fit, skilled, skillful |
| Main Entry: | ingenuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest, trustful |
Synonyms: |
artless, candid, childlike, frank, green*, guileless, innocent, like a babe in the woods, naive, natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square, straightforward, trusting, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, undisguised, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front |
Antonyms: |
deceitful, dishonest, sly |
| Main Entry: | innocent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmless, naive |
Synonyms: |
artless, childlike, credulous, frank, fresh, guileless, gullible, hurtless, ignorant, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocuous, innoxious, inobnoxious, inoffensive, offenseless, open, raw, safe, simple, soft, square, unacquainted, unartificial, uncool, unfamiliar, unhurtful, uninjurious, unmalicious, unobjectionable, unoffensive, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspicious, unworldly, well-intentioned, wellmeant, wide-eyed, youthful |
Antonyms: |
cunning, experienced, impure, knowledgeable |