Definitions for kempt

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IPA: /kɛmpt/

Kempt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in kempt (ekmpt).

Definitions for kempt

adjective

  1. neatly or tidily kept:
  2. combed, as hair.

Origin of kempt

before 1050; Middle English; Old English cemd- past participle of cemban to comb1; see unkempt

Examples for kempt

The kempt Road had not yet been opened though for some time in contemplation.

Captain kempt's reply will be sent under cover to you at your club.

His own flock, well washed and kempt, were much more agreeable subjects of contemplation.

The Duke used to say he considered the alteration of kempt's original movement the turning-point of the battle.

Bylandt's brigade gave way in confusion, but kempt's and Pack's stood firm in their places.

Captain kempt and his wife went first, followed by Sabina and her young man with the two girls in their wake.

I send you a long letter from kempt for your perusal, with a sketch of Badajos, though no longer recent news.

It is trim and "kempt" and modern, and lives strictly in the present.

He shouted in his stentorian voice to kempt's brigade: "A volley, and then charge!"

The kempt family are not visitors, but live here all the year round.

Word Value for kempt
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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