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Unkempt

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Disorderly; untidy; messy; not kept up. broadly

    "unkempt bedroom"

  3. 3
    Rough; unpolished figuratively
Adjective
  1. 1
    not properly maintained or cared for wordnet
  2. 2
    not neatly combed wordnet

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.

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