Lacking skill, cunning, or cleverness; unskilled or straightforward without tricks.
From 'craft' with the negation suffix '-less,' which means 'without.' This construction mirrors other '-less' words like 'harmless' (without harm) or 'careless' (without care).
Craftless is so rare that most English speakers have never heard it, even though it's perfectly logical—we have 'artless' and 'senseless' but defaulted to 'unskilled' instead, showing how word frequency matters more than grammatical logic.
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