Unkempt

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unkempt \Un*kempt"\ (?; 215), a. [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p.
     of kemb.]
     1. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
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     2. Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.


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              My rhymes be rugged and unkempt.      --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unkempt
       adj 1: not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"
       2: not neat or cared for; slovenly; "his unkempt appearance"
       3: not properly maintained; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas
          and unkempt rambling paths"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "unkempt":
     Gothic, Neanderthal, animal, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
     beat-up, bedraggled, bestial, blowzy, broken, brutal, brutish,
     bumpy, careless, chintzy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained,
     corrugated, cross-grained, dilapidated, disarranged, disheveled,
     disordered, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, frowzy,
     frumpish, frumpy, grainy, granulated, grubby, homespun,
     horripilant, ill-bred, impolite, in rags, inequal, informal,
     irregular, jolty, linsey-woolsey, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy,
     negligent, noncivilized, outlandish, pimply, pitted, pocky, poky,
     potholed, primitive, ragged, raggedy, rank, ripply, rough,
     rough-and-ready, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled,
     ruinous, rumpled, rutted, rutty, savage, scraggly, scruffy, seedy,
     shabby, shagged, shaggy, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod,
     sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered,
     textured, tousled, troglodytic, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed,
     uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uneven, unfastidious, unlevel,
     unlicked, unneat, unpolished, unrefined, unsightly, unsmooth,
     untamed, untidy, ununiform, wild, wimpled