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artless, a.|ˈɑːtlɪs|
[f. art n. + -less.]
1. Devoid of art or skill:
a. Unpractised, inexperienced, unskilful; unskilled, ignorant.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. 40 The artlesse tongue of a tedious dolt. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. vii. 1184 Such artlesse riders, that they cannot sit them. 1747Johnson Plan Eng. Dict. Wks. IX. 165 The work in which I engaged is generally considered..as the proper toil of artless industry. 1847Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art I. 124 The artless artists seem to have worked on, from arch to arch..without a thought.. of economising their space.
b. Devoid of the fine or liberal arts; having no desire for or endeavour after artistic effect; uncultured.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. Proem 192 Seeking conceits to sute these Artlesse times. 1636Ballard in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 35 The rugged Poem of an Art-lesse Muse. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. I. 46 The most dry and artless historians are in general the most authentic. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. ii. 216 A shadowy life—artless, joyless, loveless. No devices in that darkness of the grave.
2. a. Constructed without art or skill, rude, clumsy. b. Designed without art, inartistic, crude.
1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iii. i. (1723) 166 That there is any thing incommodious and Artless..in the Globe. 1774Johnson West. Isl. Wks. X. 373 Brogues, a kind of artless shoes. 1782Warton Hist. Kiddington (T.) Assemblages of artless and massy pillars. 1878Lubbock Preh. Times v. 141 They enclose an artless stone vault.
3. Free from art (as opposed to nature); unartificial, natural, simple.
1672Dryden in Shaks. C. Praise 348 Such Artless beauty lies in Shakespears wit. 1752C. Lennox Fem. Quix. I. i. ii. 8 Curls, which had so much the appearance of being artless, that all but her maid..imagined they were so. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iv. 169 The Doctrines of the Gospel were artless and plain. 1852A. Jameson Leg. Madonna 152 The same artless grace, the same dramatic grouping.
4. Simple-minded, sincere, guileless, ingenuous.
1714Budgell Spect. No. 605 ⁋9 Imitation is a kind of artless Flattery. 1766Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 247 The artless people drank in every word. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall v. 43 The delightful blushing consciousness of an artless girl. 1868Stanley Westm. Ab. i. 34 His artless piety and simple goodness. |