unkempt
adj/ˌʌnˈkɛmpt/UK
Etymology
From earlier unkembed, unkemmed, from Middle English unkempt (“uncombed”), equivalent to un- + kempt. Compare Old Norse úkembdr (uncombed; unkempt"; > Icelandic ókembdur), German ungekämmt (“unkempt”), Dutch ongekamd. More at kemb.
- inherited from unkempt
Definitions
Of hair, uncombed, dishevelled.
- He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.
- Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.
- Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.
Disorderly
Disorderly; untidy; messy; not kept up.
- unkempt bedroom
- And his egotism and conceit were not to be borne; and then he was both tawdry and dirty in his person; more greasily, mattedly unkempt than even a really successful pianist has any right to be, even in the best society.
Rough
Rough; unpolished.
The neighborhood
- synonymbedraggled
- synonymblowsy
- synonymdishevelled
- synonymdowdy
- synonymdowdyish
- synonymdown at heel
- synonymdowngone
- synonymqualifier
- synonymdraggle-tailed
- synonymdraggled
- synonymfrowsy
- synonymfrumpy
- antonymclean
- antonymfoppish
- antonymneat
- antonymorderly
- antonymstylish
- antonymtidy
- neighbornitty
- neighboruntidy person
- neighborramshackle
- neighborunfashionable
- neighbordisorderly
- neighborunclean
- neighborschlubby
- neighborClothing
- neighbordistressed
- neighborfaded
- neighbormotheaten
- neighborragged
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for unkempt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA