I hope nobody minds my being straggly and unkempt at five in the morning.
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Unkempt
Synonyms for "unkempt" (172 found)
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Closest matches (35)
Strong matches (51)
Adjective(17 words)
Related words (86)
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26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
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3 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
3 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- несресан adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- рошав adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 不修邊幅 /不修边幅 adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Czech
4 entries- neudržovaný adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- neupravený adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- neučesaný adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- rozcuchaný adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Dutch
2 entries- onverzorgd adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- slordig adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Finnish
2 entries- hoitamaton adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- ruokkoamaton adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
French
1 entries- ébouriffé adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Galician
1 entries- desaliñado adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Georgian
3 entries- მოუვლელი adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- მოუწესრიგებელი adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- უსუფთაო adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
German
4 entries- schäbig adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- struppig adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- unaufgeräumt adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- ungekämmt adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Greek
1 entries- απεριποίητος adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Italian
1 entries- scompigliato adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Latin
1 entries- incomptus adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Macedonian
2 entries- ра́сфрлен adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- ро́шав adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Māori
4 entries- hīwanawana adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- kōritorito adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- paranokenoke adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- puhirua adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Norman
1 entries- crîngneux adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پنتی adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Portuguese
1 entries- desgrenhado adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Russian
4 entries- взъеро́шенный adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- всклоко́ченный adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- неопря́тный adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- неря́шливый adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Spanish
3 entries- desaliñado adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- despeinado adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- desprolijo adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Turkish
3 entries- bakımsız adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- dağınık adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
- pejmürde adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Tày
1 entries- bông adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Unami
1 entries- wiàkskinakwsi adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bù xù adj (dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Her hair was unkempt.
Source: tatoeba (1992003)
Tom is unkempt.
Source: tatoeba (2190632)
Tom looked unkempt after not shaving for three days.
Source: tatoeba (3441873)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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