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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not neatly combed;
- Example: "wild unkempt hair"

2. not properly maintained or cared for;
- Example: "an unkempt garden"
- Example: "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"
- Example: "an ukempt appearance"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unkempt \Un*kempt"\ (?; 215), a. [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p.
   of kemb.]
   1. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
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   2. Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
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            My rhymes be rugged and unkempt.      --Spenser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unkempt
    adj 1: not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"
    2: not properly maintained or cared for; "an unkempt garden";
       "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"; "an ukempt
       appearance"