Artless vs Obvious - What's the difference?
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Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
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, And why should I here suppress the delight I received from this amiable creature, in remarking each artless look, each motion of pure undissembled nature, betrayed by his wanton eyes}}
Free of artificiality; natural.
Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
Poorly made or done; crude.
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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Artless is a related term of obvious.
As adjectives the difference between artless and obvious
is that artless is having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.artless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This pendant has artless charm.
Synonyms
* (Having no guile) See alsoAntonyms
* (Having no guile) See alsoAnagrams
*obvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}