'Unkempt' definitions:
Definition of 'unkempt'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"
adjective
Not properly maintained or cared for; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"; "an ukempt appearance"
Definition of 'Unkempt'
From: GCIDE
- Unkempt \Un*kempt"\ (?; 215), a. [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p. of kemb.]
- 1. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough. [1913 Webster]
- My rhymes be rugged and unkempt. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unkempt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Gothic,
- grainy,
- granulated,
- grubby,
- homespun,
- horripilant,
- ill-bred,
- impolite,
- in rags,
- inequal,
- informal,
- irregular,
- jolty,
- linsey-woolsey,
- loose,
- lumpen,
- messy,
- mussy,
- Neanderthal,
- 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