Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers Division (I) Individual Volition Section III. Voluntary Action 2. Complex Voluntary Action 703. Artlessness.
NOUN: ARTLESSNESS &c. adj.; inartificiality, unsophistication; nature, simplicity; innocence [See Innocence ]; bonhomie [F. ], naïveté [F. ], abandon [F. ], candor, sincerity; singleness of -purpose, - heart; honesty [See Probity ]; plain speaking; épanchement [F. ].le palais de vérité [F. ]; enfant terrible [F. ]. VERB: BE ARTLESS &c. adj.; be round with one [Shakespeare]; look one in the face; wear one’s heart upon one’s sleeve for daws to peck at; think aloud; speak -out, - one’s mind; be free with one, call a spade a spade; tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. ADJECTIVE: ARTLESS, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, plain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingénu [F. ], unaffected, naïve; sincere, frank; open, - as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest [See Probity ]; childlike; innocent [See Innocence ]; Arcadian; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, above-board; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-, open-, single-, simple- hearted.MATTER-OF-FACT, free-spoken, plainspoken, outspoken; blunt, downright, direct, unpoetical; unflattering, untrimmed, unvarnished. ADVERB: IN PLAIN -WORDS, - English; without mincing the matter; not to mince the matter (affirmation ) [See Affirmation ]. QUOTATIONS: Davus sum non Œdipus.—Terence
Liberavi animam meam.
As frank as rain on cherry-blossoms.—E. B. Browning
