Guileless

Definition: Guileless

Guileless

Adjective

1. Free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest".

2. Free of deceit.

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

Date "guileless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Guileless

Artlessness

Adjective: artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest; innocent; Arcadian; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted.

Veracity

Adjective: truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous; (honorable); sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling; (dissemble; ); guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous; (artless); undisguised; (real).

Crosswords: Guileless

Books

• Guileless Gypsy and the Camberwell Poisoners (reference)

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The guileless peasant set down his buckets and considered

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Albanian

i padjallëzuar (artless, innocent, naïve, sincere), i ndershëm (clean, clean-living, disinterested, fair, fair and square, fair dealing, honest, honorable, honourable, incorrupt, on the level, scrupulous, sportsmanlike, stainless, straightforward, whole-souled), i çiltër (artless, candid, direct, downright, forthright, genuine, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, hearty, innocent, open, open-hearted, plain, plain spoken, simple-hearted, sincere, straight, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, unsophisticated, wholehearted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ساذج (artless, credulous, drip, gaga, gimp, green, gullible, honest, ingenuous, innocent, mug, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, provincial, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly), ‏صريح (bare, bluff, candid, categorical, communicative, crude, direct, downright, expansive, explicit, flat, forthcoming, forthright, frank, genuine, honest, ingenuous, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, palpable, plain, plain spoken, plump, point blank, pronounced, raw, round, simple-hearted, steady, straight, straightforward, transparent, unreserved, unvarnished), ‏برئ (angelic, artless, blameless, clear, guiltless, harmless, honest, inculpable, ingenuous, innocent, naive, pure, simple, starry eyed, white). (various references)

Bulgarian 

откровен (candid, forthright, ingenuous, open, openhearted, outright, plain, plainspoken, point blank, round, simple minded, simple-hearted, sincere, straight, transparent, unvarnished), невинен (artless, blameless, clean-handed, guiltless, innocent, irreproachable, sinless, unblamable, unoffending, unsophisticated, virginal, white, white-handed, wide-eyed), наивен (artless, fond, green, gullible, ingenuous, jejune, naпve, naif, silly, simple, undesigning, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed). (various references)

Chinese 

愫 (sincere), 天真 (naive). (various references)

Czech

naivní (dewy-eyed, green, gullible, innocent, naïve, starry eyed), bezelstný (artless, dewy-eyed, ingenuous, innocent, naïve, simple minded, unworldly). (various references)

Dutch

argeloos (innocent, inoffensive, naïf, naïve, naif, naive). (various references)

Esperanto

senmalica (inoffensive). (various references)

French

sans astuce, naïf, franc. (various references)

Frisian

sûnder euvelmoed (innocent, inoffensive). (various references)

German

arglos (innocent, inoffensive, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspectingly, unsuspicious, unsuspiciously). (various references)

Greek 

άδολοσ (candid, plain, unadulterated, undersigning), άδολος, απονήρευτοσ (unsophisticated). (various references)

Hebrew 

תמים (blameless, complete, entire, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naןve, simple, unsophisticated, upright, whole). (various references)

Hungarian

jámbor (arcadian, biddable, devotional, godly, holy, pious, religious, saintly). (various references)

Italian

ingenuo (artless, brainless, childlike, gullible, ingenue, ingenuous, naïve, naive, oafish, simple minded). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

直情径行　 (implulsive and straightforward), 直情径行 (impulsive and straightforward), 他愛無い (absurd, childish, easy, foolish, silly, trifling), 他愛ない (absurd, childish, easy, foolish, silly, trifling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たわいない (absurd, childish, easy, foolish, silly, trifling), ちょくじょうけい�"う (impulsive and straightforward). (various references)

Manx

neuchialgagh (plain, simple, undeceitful, unfeigned). (various references)

Pig Latin

uilelessgay.(various references)

Portuguese

sincero (artless, candid, convinced, cordial, deep, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, earnest, frank, freehearted, heartfelt, hearty, honest, ingenuous, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward, strong, true, true-hearted, unaffected, undisguised, unfeigned, unvarnished, whole-hearted, whole-souled), simples (artless, chaste, classic, classical, convenient, easy, frugal, green, homely, homespun, humble, ingenuous, innocent, inornate, matter-of-course, mere, modest, natural, onefold, outage, plain, primary, pure, regular, self-effacing, sheer, shirt-sleeve, simple, simple-hearted, single, singles, smattering, soft, sole, solitary, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, unlaboured, unostentatious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, unworldly), sem maldade (simple-hearted), leal (anchored, brave, devoted, fair, faithful, frank, gallant, honest, loyal, open-hearted, simple-hearted, sincere, soldierly, sportsmanlike, sporty, staunch, true, true-blue, true-hearted, trustworthy, trusty), franco (above-board, bluff, candid, clear, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, forthright, franc, frank, freehearted, honest, ingenuous, large-hearted, non-partisan, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, plump, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised, unequivocal). (various references)

Romanian

sincer (above board, artless, authentic, blunt, candid, candidly, childlike, devout, downright, fair, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, genuine, heartfelt, heart-whole, hearty, honest, honestly, ingenuous, kind, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, plain, plainly, right-down, round, sincere, single, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, undisguised, unfeigned, unpretending, unreserved, well-meant), neprihãnit (pure, taintless), inocent (clean, guiltless, harmless, ingenuous, innocent, sackless, unoffending, virgin), deschis (above board, artless, avowedly, bald, baldly, barefaced, barely, blunt, broad, direct, downright, flatly, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, light, naked, open, openly, outright, outspoken, overt, overtly, pale, patent, plainly, raw, round, roundly, sincere, Square, straight, straightforward, unfeigned, unreserved), cinstit (above board, candid, chaste, clean-fingered, correctly, fair, foursquare, gentlemanlike, honest, honestly, honest-minded, honorable, honourable, mensurable, on the level, on the up and up, open, reliable, reputable, respectable, righteous, scrupulous, simple, sincere, sincerely, sporting, sportsmanlike, Square, straightforward, true, trustful, truthful, unfeigned, upright, venerable, virtuous). (various references)

Russian 

простодушный (artless, ingenuous, naпve, onefold, one-fold, simple-hearted). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bezazlen (artless, childish, harmless, ingenuous, innocent, laudable, naďve, simplehearted, simple-hearted, unoffending, unsuspecting). (various references)

Spanish

cándido (artless, gullible, innocent, inoffensive, naïve, snow white), ingenuo (harmless, ingenuous, innocent, inoffensive, naïve, naive, simple minded, unoffending). (various references)

Swedish

sveklös, ärlig (aboveboard, above-board, fair, fair dealing, honest, plain, sincere, straight, upright). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งไร้เล่ห์เหลี่ยม. (various references)

Turkish

saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), hilesiz (above board, genuine, honest, straightforward, unadulterated), doğru (above board, according to cocker, according to hoyle, accurate, aright, authentic, cheese, correct, direct, due, exact, exactly, fair, fair enough, faithful, for, honest, honest injun, just, on time, ortho-, orthodox, precisely, prompt, proper, punctual, quite so, right, righteous, sincere, spot-on, Square, straight, straight as a die, straight line, the right, the thing, the truth, thro, through, thru, true, truthful, up to, upstanding), dürüst (above board, candid, christian, conscientious, dinkum, direct, downright, fair, faithful, Frank, honest, incorruptible, jannock, just, level, moral, on the square, open, plain, regular, right, righteous, right-minded, sincere, single minded, single-hearted, sporting, Square, straight, straight as a die, straight out, straightforward, upfront, upright, upstanding, virtuous). (various references)

Ukrainian

простодушний (artless, onefold, shiftless, simple-hearted, untutored). (various references)

Welsh

didwyll (sincere), annichellgar (simple). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "guileless": guilelessly, guilelessness, guilelessnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Guileless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: guiloeless, guilrless. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gullies, ileuses, legless, ligules, sullies.

-3 letters: egises, guiles, guises, gussie, lieges, ligule, lisles, segues, selles, sieges, uglies.

-4 letters: gills, glees, glues, guess, guile, guise, gules, gulls, iglus, ileus, isles, issue, leges, liege, lieus, lisle, luges, seels, segue, seise, selle, sells, siege, sills, slues, slugs.

-5 letters: eels, egis, ells, else, eses, gees, gels, gies, gill.

+2 letters: guilelessly.

+3 letters: guilefulness, legislatures.

+4 letters: guilelessness, guiltlessness.

+5 letters: colleagueships, delightfulness, guilefulnesses, skullduggeries.