unkempt

unkempt

/ˌʌnˈkempt/

(formal)

​(especially of somebody’s hair or general appearance) not well cared for; not neat or tidy

greasy, unkempt hair

The children were unwashed and unkempt.

a wild and unkempt garden

Collocations

noun

Word Origin

late Middle English: from un- ‘not’ + kempt ‘combed’ (past participle of archaic kemb, related to comb).

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