English-Thai Dictionary

unkempt

ADJ ยุ่งเหยิง  ไม่เป็นระเบียบ  untidy tidy neat yung-yoeng

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

UNKEMPT

Un *kempt ", a. Etym: [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p. of kemb. ]

 

1. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.

 

2. Fig. ; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough. My rhymes be rugged and unkempt. Spenser.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

unkempt

un kempt |ˌənˈkem (p )t ˌənˈkɛm (p )t | ▶adjective (esp. of a person ) having an untidy or disheveled appearance: they were unwashed and unkempt. DERIVATIVES un kempt ly adverb, un kempt ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from un- 1 ‘not ’ + kempt ‘combed ’ (past participle of archaic kemb, related to comb ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

unkempt

unkempt |ʌnˈkɛm (p )t | ▶adjective (especially of a person ) having an untidy or dishevelled appearance: they were unwashed and unkempt. DERIVATIVES unkemptly adverb, unkemptness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from un- 1 ‘not ’ + kempt ‘combed ’ (past participle of archaic kemb, related to comb ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

unkempt

unkempt adjective unkempt hair: untidy, messy, scruffy, straggly, disordered, disheveled, disarranged, rumpled, wind-blown, ungroomed, bedraggled, in a mess, mussed, messed up; tousled, uncombed. ANTONYMS tidy. WORD NOTE kempt Kempt and couth belong to a set of orphan positives: they are words that are more commonly heard in the negative. It's entertaining to use words that fall a little further into this set: crepit (instead of decrepit ), advertent (instead of inadvertent ), (and on the sillier side ) combobulated and chalant (instead of discombobulated and nonchalant ). These (like any joke ) can be annoying and cloying if used too often, but once in a while I like to remind readers and myself that even long-cemented prefixes can be wrenched away from their stems. You can also do this with words that don't even, strictly speaking, have prefixes —only parts that look like prefixes. My favorite "de-prefixed " invention is livious —although it's hard to use this one since there are so few opportunities to employ it, compared with its parent, oblivious. — EM Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

unkempt

unkempt adjective a rough-looking youth with long unkempt hair: untidy, messy, scruffy, disordered, dishevelled, disarranged, rumpled, windblown, ungroomed, bedraggled, in a mess, messed up, shabby, slovenly, shaggy; tousled, uncombed, knotted, matted; informal sloppy, tatty, the worse for wear; Brit. informal grotty; N. Amer. informal mussed up. ANTONYMS tidy, neat.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

unkempt

un kempt /ʌ̀nkém (p )t /形容詞 〈庭などが 〉手入れを怠った (untidy ); 〈髪が 〉とかしていない ; 〈人が 〉だらしない身なりをした ; 〈言葉などが 〉洗練されていない, 粗野な .