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Artlessly

Definition: Artlessly

Artlessly

Adverb

1. In a crude and unskilled manner; "an inexpertly constructed lean-to".

2. In an ingenuous manner; "she answered the judge's questions artlessly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "artlessly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Synonyms: Artlessly

Synonyms: crudely (adv), inexpertly (adv), ingenuously (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Artlessly

"Artlessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Artlessly" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Artlessly

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "artlessly": oh-so-artlessly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Artlessly

Language Translations for "artlessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏ببساطة (frugally, plain, purely, simply). (various references)

   

French

  

naturelle. (various references)

   

German

  

natürliche (natural). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αφελώσ (naively). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

egyszerűen (austerely, frugally, lowly, plainly, severely, simply). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gyn keirdoilaght, gyn ellyn, dy ynrick (candidly, honestly, rightly, undeviatingly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

artlesslyay

   

Russian 

  

просто (just, merely, plainly, simply). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

невміло (lubberly), незграбно (angularly, awkwardly, heavily, lefthandedly, lubberly, splay, ungainly), простодушно, просто (bang, clean, merely, simply). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Artlessly

Derivations

Words ending with "artlessly": heartlessly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Artlessly"

Words rhyming with "artlessly" (pronounced 'Art"less*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Artlessly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-r-s-s-t-y"

-2 letters: alertly, artless, estrays, lasters, lysates, rallyes, rayless, sallets, salters, slaters, slayers, stalely, stayers, stellar, stellas, stylers.

-3 letters: alerts, alleys, alters, artels, assert, asters, elytra, estral, estray, lasers, laster, lastly, lately, layers, lealty, leasts, lyases, lyrate, lysate, rallye, rassle, ratels, really, realty, relays, resays, sallet, salter, satyrs, sayers, sayest, slater, slates, slatey, slayer.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-r-s-s-t-y"
 

+2 letters: crystallise, heartlessly.

 

+3 letters: breathlessly, crystallised, crystallises, crystallites, crystallizes, trisyllables.

 

+4 letters: crystallizers, superloyalist.

 

+5 letters: recrystallizes, schoolmasterly, slaughterously, superloyalists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Artlessly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 72 74 6C 65 73 73 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-.    -    .-..    .    ...    ...    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110010 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#116 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0074 006C 0065 0073 0073 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

358486787185857891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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