Synonyms Dictionary
2. virtuoso, brilliant, bravura; expert, masterful, masterly; talented, accomplished, skilled, good, proficient, excellent; skillful, clever, adept, adroit, apt, dexterous.
3. tasteful, in good taste, in the best taste, choice, well-chosen; aesthetic, sensitive, discriminative, art-minded, art-conscious, Inf. arty, SL artsy-craftsy; classic, elegant, restrained, subdued, understated; cultured, cultivated, polished, refined.
4. bohemian, unconventional, nonconforming, offbeat, original. artistry, n. virtuosity, brilliance, genius; talent, skill, skillfulness, dexterity, adroitness, expertness, mastery; art, flair, knack, gift, way, touch, feel, hang, artless, adj. 1. open, open and sincere, open-hearted, ingenuous, guileless, genuine, sincere, undeceptive, undeceitful, undeceiving, unfeigning, undissembling, undissimulating; aboveboard, open and aboveboard, up front, up and up, on the level, no-nonsense; natural, uncontrived, unaffected, unassuming, unadorned, unpretentious, unpretending.
2. candid, frank, forthright, foursquare, straightforward, straight-from-the-shoulder; plain, plain-spoken, plain-speaking, downright, outright, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, undisguised, Inf. straight-out, Inf. flat-footed, Inf. matter-of-fact.
3. naive, simple, simple-minded, innocent, childlike; unsophisticated, undeveloped, unworldly, green, raw, born-yesterday, wet behind the ears; unsuspicious, trustful, trusting, unwary, unguarded.
4. inartistic, unartistic, unaesthetic; amateurish, crude, clumsy, awkward, badly or poorly made or constructed.
5. unskillful, inexpert, unproficient, unclever; un-dexterous, inadept, undeft, unfacile; unaccomplished, unskilled, untrained, untaught, untutored, unprepared; ungifted, untalented, unendowed. artlessness, n. 1. openness, openheartedness, ingenuousness, guilelessness, sincerity, sincereness, genuineness, undeceptiveness, undeceitfulness; naturalness, unaffectedness, unpretentiousness.
2. candor, candidness, frankness, forthrightness, straightforwardness, calling a spade a spade, SL telling it like it is; plain-speaking, plain-spokenness, downrightness, outrightness, explicitness, unequivocalness.
3. naivete, naiveness, simpleness, simple-mindedness, innocence; unsophisticatedness, greenness, rawness, unworldliness; trustfulness, unsuspiciousness, unwariness, unguardedness.
4. unskillfulness, inexpertness, uncleverness; clumsiness, crudeness, awkwardness, undexterousness, undeftness, unfacileness; ungiftedness, untalentedness. as, adv., conj. 1. similarly, equally, to the same extent, in equal degree, no less than, in the same proportion; to such a degree or extent, to the degree that, in proportion to which.
2. for example, for instance, namely, to wit, Latin, videlicet, viz.; in a manner like that of, after the manner of, in the same manner with, of the same kind with; thus, in this way.
3. thought to be, considered to be, taken to be; viewed like, under the name of, in the idea or character of.
4. at the same time that, during the time that, while, when.
5. since, because, inasmuch as, forasmuch as, it being the case that; for the reason that, by reason of, on account of, in consideration of, considering that, on the score that.
6. though, even if, granting that.
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