Guileless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Guileless \Guile"less\, a.
     Free from guile; artless. -- {Guile"less*ly}, adv.
     {Guile"less*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  guileless
       adj 1: free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest" [syn: {honest}]
       2: free of deceit [syn: {transparent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "guileless":
     artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike,
     confiding, credulous, dependent, depending, direct, frank, ingenu,
     ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain,
     reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere,
     single-hearted, single-minded, trustful, trusting, trusty,
     unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unbeguileful, unbeguiling,
     uncalculating, undeceitful, undeceiving, undeceptive, undesigning,
     undisguised, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulated,
     undissimulating, unfeigned, unfeigning, unflattering, unguarded,
     unpretended, unpretending, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated,
     unstudied, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untrimmed, untutored,
     unvarnished, unwary, without suspicion