Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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.].
  rough diamond, matter-of-fact man; 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:

1. Davus sum non Œdipus.—Terence
2. Liberavi animam meam.
3. As frank as rain on cherry-blossoms.—E. B. Browning