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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

honest, innocent, and lacking guile;

e.g. Apparently they are a much more guileless body of people than we suspected.

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Similar Words

Aboveboard

Artless

Childlike

Fictile

Genuine

Honest

Impressionable

Ingenuous

Innocent

Naive

Natural

Persuadable

Real

Reliant

Sincere

True

Unaffected

Undesigning

Unpretentious

Unquestioning

Unsubtle

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Opposite Words

Affected

Arch

Artful

Artificial

Assuming

Calculating

Canny

Civilized

Clear-eyed

Clear-sighted

Cosmopolitan

Crafty

Critical

Crooked

Cultivated

Cultured

Cunning

Cute

Deceitful

Deceptive

Designing

Devious

Dishonest

Double-dealing

Fake

False

Feigned

Flattering

Forced

Heady

Hypocritical

Insincere

Knavish

Manipulative

Mealymouthed

Phony

Polished

Pretentious

Refined

Scheming

Shifty

Skeptical

Slick

Slippery

Sly

Slyly

Smooth

Sophisticated

Strained

Subtle

Suspicious

Sycophantic

Tricky

Two-faced

Uncandid

Unctuous

Underhanded

Unforthcoming

Wary

Wily

Witted

Worldly

Worldly-wise

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Related Words

Candid

Childlike

Confiding

Dewy-eyed

Direct

Easy

Forthcoming

Forthright

Foursquare

Frank

Free

Free-spoken

Gullible

Honest

Impressionable

Malleable

Naive

Open

Openhearted

Out-front

Outspoken

Persuadable

Plain

Plainspoken

Simpleminded

Single-minded

Spontaneous

Straight

Straightforward

Susceptible

Trustful

Truthful

Unforced

Unguarded

Unreserved

Unsophisticated

Unstudied

Unwary

Unworldly

Up-front

Veracious

Wide-eyed

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