Unkempt

Definition: Unkempt

Unkempt

Adjective

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unkempt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Unkempt \Un*kempt"\, adjective. [Prefix un- not kempt, past participle of kemb.]. (references)

Uncleanness

Unkempt, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed.

Vulgarity

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,

Crosswords: Unkempt

Unkempt grizzled beard

The proprietor, a little gray man with an unkempt mustache and watery eyes, leaned on the counter reading a newspaper

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i pakrehur, i çrregullt (anomalous, disorderly, erratic, fitful, formless, irregular, messy, tumultuary, untidy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير مهذب (bad form, common, impolite, indecorous, rude, uncivil, unrefined), ‏أشعث (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled, frowzy, ragged, shaggy, tousled). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рошав (brushy, ragged, rough, scraggly, scraggy, shag, shaggy, towheaded), разхвърлян (desultory, higgledy-piggledy, incoherent, messy, pell mell, piggish, scattered, untidy), развлечен (dowdy, dowdyish, scrubby, scruffy, slatternly), несресан (shag, shaggy, uncombed, undressed), неподреден (undressed), занемарен (neglected, ragged, run down, seedy, shabby, sleazy, squalid, uncultivated, untended). (various references)

Chinese 

鬙 (short hair), 不整洁. (various references)

Czech

zanedbaný (derelict, frowsy, frowzy, neglected, neglectful, squalid, uncared for, uncultivated), rozcuchaný (disheveled, dishevelled, straggly, unruly, untidy, wind swept), neupravený (blowzy, dowdy, mussy, sloppy, undressed, untidy, wild), neudržovaný, neuèesaný, nepořádný (disorderly, ill-sorted, messy, mussy, orderless, slatternly, untidy), neèesaný. (various references)

Dutch

ongekamd. (various references)

Esperanto

nekombita. (various references)

Farsi 

نامرتب (Disheveled, Irregular, Sloppy, Slovenly, Unequal, Untidy), ناهنجار (Abnormal, Backhand, Dissonant, Gruff, Inelegant, Lumpy, Maladroit, Malformed, Nefarious, Raucous, Rough, Surly, Timber, Uncouth), ناسترده (Uncouth), ژولیده (Disheveled, Draggy, Ragamuffin, Slovenly, Uncouth), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), شانه نکرده . (various references)

Finnish

siivoton (bedraggled, indecent, messy, untidy), hoitamaton (uncared for). (various references)

French

négligé (unheeded, untidy), mal peigné, débraillé (untidiness, untidy). (various references)

German

ungepflegt (bedraggled, neglected, scruffy, uncared for, uncultivated, unkemptly, untended, untidy), ungekämmt (uncombed). (various references)

Greek 

ακτένιστοσ (uncombed), απεριποίητοσ (neglected, scruffy, sleazy, uncared for). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוז� ח (abandoned, forsaken, neglected, seedy, slipshod, tacky), מרושל (careless, frowzy, negligent, perfunctory, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slob, sloppy, slovenly). (various references)

Hungarian

fésületlen, borzas (disheveled, dishevelled, fuzzy, rumpled). (various references)

Italian

spettinato, sciatto (blowzy, careless, dowdy, frowzy, pig, shabby, sleazily, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly), scarmigliato (disheveled, dishevelled, ruffled), incolto (barbaric, fallow, illiterate, illiterately, neglected, refracted, uncultivated, uneducated, unlettered, unschooled, waste, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

もぎ取る (bushy, disheveled, hello, if so, in that case, raggedy, scragly, shaggy, to be torn off, to break or tear off, to come off, to pick, to pluck off, tousled), もし可能ならば (all the way, awfully, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, dishevelled, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, fidget, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hazy, hesitantly, if possible, impatient, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, tardy, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, tousled, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もしゃもしゃ (bushy, disheveled, raggedy, scragly, shaggy, tousled), もじゃもじゃ (dishevelled, shaggy, tousled). (various references)

Pig Latin

emptunkay.(various references)

Portuguese

pouco cuidado (inaccuracy), mal-arranjado (messy, scruffy, slovenly), mal penteado, despenteado (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled). (various references)

Romanian

neglijent (careless, casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unmindful, untidy, unwary), neîngrijit (dowdy, frowzy, grubby, poky, shabby, slattern, sloppy, untidy, weed-grown), lãţos (dishevelled, tousled), dezordonat (dishevelled, disorderly, erratic, ill-regulated, irregular, messy, riotous, slipshod, untidy), ciufulit (blowzy, dishevelled, fluffy, ruffled, rumpled, tousled), buhos (dishevelled, hirsute, tousled). (various references)

Russian 

нечесаный (frowsy, frowzy, ragged, scruffy), неопрятный (frowzy, grubby, unclean, untidy), небрежный (careless, casual, devil-may-care, harum scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inexact, lax, loose, loose translation, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, ragged, remiss, scratchy, slipshod, sloppy, unheeding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapušten (foul, negligent, rusty), razbarušen (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled, ruffle up, tousled), neočešljan, aljkav (blowzy, dowdy, grubby, littery, slatternly, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly). (various references)

Spanish

desaliñado (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, frowzy, frumpish, messy, neglected, scruffy, slovenly, tacky, untidy). (various references)

Swedish

ovårdad (dishevelled, neglected, ragged, ratty, scruffy, slovenly, substandard, untidy), okammad (frowsy, frowzy, uncombed). (various references)

Turkish

taranmamış (shaggy), paçoz, hırpani (dowdy, seedy, shabby, slatternly, sleazy, ungainly), dağınık (bedraggled, diffuse, disorganized, dispersed, messy, out of trim, ragged, scattered, scruffy, sick, straggling, straggly, untidy, wild), düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, excursive, fitful, freehand, haywire, hugger mugger, huggermugger, indigested, inordinate, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, non-uniform, out of order, out of square, out of trim, out-of-balance, patchily, patchy, ragged, rambling, snatchy, snuffy, unequal, unsteady, untidy). (various references)

Ukrainian

нечесаний (frowzy), неохайний (chatty, dowdy, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, negligent, scruffy, slapdash, slattern, slatternly, slobbery, sloven, slovenly, soppy, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không chải, bù xù (tousy). (various references)

horrida, incomptus, inculta. (various references)

Misspellings

"Unkempt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbempt, uncent, unhempt, unkemp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: unkept.

-2 letters: kempt, unmet.

-3 letters: kemp, kent, kept, kune, menu, mute, neuk, neum, nuke, pent, puke, punk, punt, temp, tump, tune.

-4 letters: emu, ken, kep, kue, men, met, mun, mut, net, nut, pen, pet, pun, put, ten, tun, tup, uke, ump.

-5 letters: em, en, et, me, mu, ne, nu, pe, um, un, up, ut.

+4 letters: computernik.

+5 letters: computerniks.