guileless
/ˈɡaɪl.ləs/
guileless adjective: free from guile; honest but naive.
Adjective
guileless (comparative more guileless, superlative most guileless)
- Free from guile; honest but naive.
- To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.1923 February 11, Mme. X. [pseudonym], “News of Chicago Society: Now That War’s Over, On with Full Dress, Men”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, final edition, volume LXXXII, number 6, Chicago, Ill....
guileless meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
guileless in Tamil
- honest but naive
- வெள்ளை veḷḷai
guileless in Marathi
- honest but naive
- निष्कपट niṣkapaṭ
guileless in Urdu
- بےریا, بھولا بھالا, مخلص, صاف, سیدھا سادھا
guileless in Bengali
- honest but naive
- নিষ্কপট niśkopoṭ, কুটিলতাবর্জিত kuʈilôtabôrjitô
More languagesFewer languages
- guileless in Malayalam
- നിഷ്കളങ്ക, അകപട, കുശലമില്ലാത്ത, കാപട്യമില്ലാത്ത
Forms of guileless
| comparative | more guileless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most guileless |
Origin of guileless
From guile + -less.
Words formed from guileless
Questions about guileless
- What does guileless mean?
- Guileless means free from guile; honest but naive.
- What is guileless in Tamil?
- Guileless in Tamil is வெள்ளை (veḷḷai). See Guileless meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is guileless?
- Guileless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce guileless?
- Guileless is pronounced /ˈɡaɪl.ləs/.
Words near guileless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: guileless (page history and authors); guileless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guileless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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