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One entry found for
guileless
.
Entry Word:
guileless
Function:
adjective
Text: free from any intent to deceive or impress others <she was an easy-going,
guileless
young woman who was comfortable just being herself>
Synonyms
artless, genuine, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (
or
naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious
Related Words
childlike, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly; unforced, unstudied; candid, frank, free, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded; trustful, trusting
Phrases
on the level
Near Antonyms
sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise; crooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, two-faced; arch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, tricky, underhanded, wily; flattering, mealymouthed, smooth, sycophantic, unctuous; feigned, forced, strained
Antonyms
affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (
also
phoney), pretentious