A free service provided by Writers Nexus International

Writing Resources:
  • New Novelist Software
  • Writer Circles
  • Author Me
  • FirstWriter.com
  • Novel Advice
  • Robin's Nest for Writers
  • The Scriptorium
  • Women on Writing


A Writer's Dictionary:

unkempt Definition


Dictionary Home » Words Starting with U » universitarian ... unmistakably » unkempt


unkempt
adj
    1. Said of hair: uncombed.
      Thesaurus: dishevelled, ungroomed, tousled, uncombed.
    2. Said of general appearance: untidy; dishevelled.
      Thesaurus: dishevelled, ungroomed, sloppy, rumpled, bedraggled, slatternly, messy, disordered, disarranged; Antonym: neat, tidy.
Derivative: unkemptly
adverb
    Etymology: 18c: a variant of earlier unkembed, from Anglo-Saxon cemban to comb.



    Click Here