unkempt | Definition of unkempt

Synonyms and Antonyms of unkempt

1 lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness

an unkempt and cluttered room

Synonyms of unkempt

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, pell-mell, rumpled, sloppy, topsy-turvy, tousled, tumbled, untidy, upside-down

Words Related to unkempt

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, smudged, soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly

dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), shaggy, slatternly, sloven, slovenly, uncombed

adulterated, contaminated, defiled, polluted, tainted

knotted, snarled, tangled

seedy, shabby, sleazy, sordid

neglected, neglectful, negligent

Phrases Synonymous with unkempt

at sixes and sevens, out of joint

Near Antonyms of unkempt

antiseptic, clean, cleaned, cleanly, hygienic, immaculate, sparkling, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied

methodical (also methodic), regular, systematic, systematized

careful, fastidious, finicky, fussy, meticulous

combed, groomed, manicured, well-groomed

taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, wholesome

Antonyms of unkempt

bandbox, crisp, kempt, neat, neatened, ordered, orderly, organized, shipshape, snug, tidied, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-ordered

2 lacking neatness in dress or person

the stereotype of the unkempt but brilliant scientist

Synonyms of unkempt

blowsy (also blowzy), dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), slobbish, slobby, sloppy, sloven, slovenly, untidy

Words Related to unkempt

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, shaggy, uncombed, wrinkled

besmirched, blackened, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby,