guileless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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.

词形变化

more guileless comparative most guileless superlative

词源

Etymology tree
English guile
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English guileless
From guile + -less.
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