Hypertext Webster Gateway: "unkempt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Unkempt \Un*kempt"\ (?; 215), a. [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p.
of kemb.]
1. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
2. Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
My rhymes be rugged and unkempt. --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
unkempt
adj 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"
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