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Definition of unkempt : 1. Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
2. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.

Synonyms:

muddled, coiffed, blowsy, bald, balding, frowsy, mussy, bedhead, pell-mell, littered, confused, untidy, tumbled, topsy-turvy, hugger-mugger, chaotic, rumpled, mussed, messed, cluttered, bad hair day, disarranged, disarrayed, upside-down, slipshod, slobby, disordered, body, higgledy-piggledy, uncombed, bushy, close-cropped, ungroomed, bouffant, tousled, jumbled, slobbish, bristly, order, sloven

disorderly, unclean

messy, careless, sloppy, neglectful, shabby, slovenly, dirty, disheveled, squalid

frowzy, drab, frumpy, tacky, unfashionable, dowdy

crude, unsophisticated, vulgar, unpolished, coarse

Usage examples:

• There has been an unkempt ruffian marching up and down watching this house.
• Statues and pillars are alike antique, and give you a moment of the Eternal City the more intense because the promenade is of an unkempt and broken surface, like the Cow- field which the Roman Forum used to be. - "Familiar Spanish Travels", W. D. Howells.
• It happened that their letter came just as we had before us two little lads from the Mulberry Street Bend, ragged, dirty, unkempt, and altogether a sight to see. - "The Children of the Poor", Jacob A. Riis.