Artless vs Pristine - What's the difference?
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Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
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, And why should I here suppress the delight I received from this amiable creature, in remarking each artless look, each motion of pure undissembled nature, betrayed by his wanton eyes}}
Free of artificiality; natural.
Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
Poorly made or done; crude.
Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something
Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
* 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/pubs/freshwater-sawfish-northern-river-shark.pdf]
Artless is a related term of pristine.
As adjectives the difference between artless and pristine
is that artless is having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit while pristine is unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied or pristine can be relating to sawfishes of the family pristidae.artless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This pendant has artless charm.
Synonyms
* (Having no guile) See alsoAntonyms
* (Having no guile) See alsoAnagrams
*pristine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pristin.Adjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).
