ˈärtlə̇s, ˈȧt- adjective
1.
a. : lacking art, skill, or knowledge : ignorant , unskillful
to be artless is to be dehumanized — E.A.Hoebel
b. : devoid of artistic quality or taste : uncultured
the land vaguely realizing westward but still unstoried, artless — Robert Frost
2. : free from the artificial : easy, natural, and not contrived
its atmosphere of something we call an artless charm pervades through the narrative — H.V.Gregory
3. : made or contrived without skill or art : crude , inartistic
marred by an artless summerhouse in the garden
4. : marked by freedom from calculated craft, guile, and duplicity and by sincerity, simplicity, and genuineness
open, candid, artless , guileless, with affections strong, but simple, forming no pretensions, and knowing no disguise — Jane Austen
Synonyms: see natural