Antonyms for unkempt
ʌnˈkɛmptun·kempt

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1. unkemptadjective

   Synonyms:
   dishevelled, slovenly

2. unkemptadjective

   dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up

   Synonyms:
   slovenly, dishevelled

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unkempt

   Antonyms:
   clean, cleanly, dapper, natty, neat, nice, orderly, prim, spruce, tidy, trim

   Synonyms:
   dirty, disorderly, dowdy, negligent, rough, rude, slouchy, slovenly, soiled, uncared for, untidy

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unkemptadjective

   not neatly combed

   "wild unkempt hair"

   Antonyms:
   combed, tidy

2. unkemptadjective

   not properly maintained or cared for

   "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"; "an ukempt appearance"

   Antonyms:
   combed, tidy

How to use unkempt in a sentence?

1. Len Goodman:

   You dance like your hair: a little wild and unkempt.

2. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko:

   I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

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