Definitions for unkempt

unkempt un·kempt

Spelling: [uhn-kempt]
IPA: /ʌnˈkɛmpt/

Unkempt is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in unkempt (ekmnptu).

Definitions for unkempt

adjective

  1. not combed:
  2. uncared-for or neglected; disheveled; messy:
  3. unpolished; rough; crude.

Origin of unkempt

1590-1600; variant of unkembed; see un-1, kempt

Examples for unkempt

There were two rough-haired, unkempt horses in the tumble-down stable.

Today, instead of men performing backbreaking work on creaking machinery, unkempt grass bends in the light breeze.

Lemkin hung around the proceedings, disheveled and unkempt, but determined.

Shorn was the unkempt mop of hair and vanished the impudent swagger.

Peter knew me not at first, so changed and unkempt was I with my long journeyings.

He ran through the unkempt garden, and was quickly at the door.

Al Pacino comes dressed in black and gray, wearing multiple bracelets and an unkempt tuft of hair poking up from his scalp.

He even began a smile in the shadows of his unkempt moustache.

The typically fresh-faced, photogenic 31-year-old actor is sporting a bushy, unkempt, downright Biblical-looking beard.

Strands of unkempt white hair wave above his head like an anti-surrender flag.

Word Value for unkempt
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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