All guileless synonyms
guile·less
G g adj guileless
- unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
- aboveboard — An arrangement or deal that is aboveboard is legal and is being carried out openly and honestly. A person who is aboveboard is open and honest about what they are doing.
- artless — Someone who is artless is simple and honest, and does not think of deceiving other people.
- candid — When you are candid about something or with someone, you speak honestly.
- frank — direct and unreserved in speech; straightforward; sincere: Her criticism of my work was frank but absolutely fair.
- genuine — possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.
- ingenuous — free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
- innocent — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- naive — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- natural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- simple — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- sincere — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- truthful — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
- unaffected — not affected, acted upon, or influenced; unchanged; unaltered: The laboratory clock remained accurate, unaffected by the explosion.
- unstudied — not studied; not premeditated or labored; natural; unaffected.
- simple-minded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- undesigning — not characterized by underhand schemes or selfish motives; without an ulterior design.
adjective guileless
- honest — honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair: an honest person.
- transparent — having the property of transmitting rays of light through its substance so that bodies situated beyond or behind can be distinctly seen.