unkempt

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=kempt

CIDE DICTIONARY

unkempt, a. [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p. of kemb.].

•  Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.  [1913 Webster]

  "My rhymes be rugged and unkempt."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unkempt, adj.
1 untidy, of neglected appearance.
2 uncombed, dishevelled.

Derivative

unkemptly adv. unkemptness n.

Etymology

UN-(1) + archaic kempt past part. of kemb comb f. OE cemban

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

unkempt

Uncleanness

N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.

Vulgarity

N vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, Goth, Vandal, Boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern, in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant), unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, Bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive.