Usually means: Neglected in appearance or grooming.
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  1. unkempt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unkempt: Merriam-Webster
  3. unkempt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unkempt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unkempt: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unkempt: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unkempt, unkempt: Wordnik
  8. unkempt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unkempt: Wiktionary
  10. unkempt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unkempt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unkempt: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unkempt: Dictionary.com
  14. unkempt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unkempt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Unkempt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. unkempt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. unkempt: Rhymezone
  19. unkempt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. unkempt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. unkempt: FreeDictionary.org
  22. unkempt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. unkempt: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unkempt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unkempt)

▸ adjective:  (of hair) Uncombed; dishevelled.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) Disorderly; untidy; messy; not kept up.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Rough; unpolished

Similar:
uncombed, ungroomed, untidy, unkemmed, unkept, unshaven, untrimmed, undishevelled, unkembed, undisheveled, more...

Opposite:
tidy, neat, organized, groomed

Types:
disheveled, messy, scruffy, unruly, more...

Phrases:
unkempt hair, unkempt abodes, least unkempt, unkempt abode, feature of an unkempt attic, more...

Colors:
    moss green,     rust,     mustard yellow,     olive drab,     taupe, more...


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Similar:
uncombed, ungroomed, untidy, unkemmed, unkept, unshaven, untrimmed, undishevelled, unkembed, undisheveled, more...

Opposite:
tidy, neat, organized, groomed

Types:
disheveled, messy, scruffy, unruly, more...

Phrases:
unkempt hair, unkempt abodes, least unkempt, unkempt abode, feature of an unkempt attic, like an unkempt flower garden, wall residue in an unkempt room, maximally unkempt, like an unkempt garden, more...

Colors:
    moss green,     rust,     mustard yellow,     olive drab,     taupe, more...



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