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Adjective: artless  aa(r)t-lus
  1. Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
    "an artless admission of responsibility";
    - ingenuous
     
  2. Simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
    "an artless manner"; "artless elegance"
     
  3. Showing lack of art
    "an artless translation"
     
  4. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
    "artless persons have full means of knowing with absolute certainty God's existence";
    - uncultivated, uncultured

See also: candid, careless, heart-to-heart, naif, naïf, naive, naïve, natural, open, sincere, undistorted, unrefined, unskilled

Antonym: artful

Encyclopedia: Artless