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uncompt

uncompt is the obsolete form of unkempt.

Meaning of unkempt

Adjective

unkempt (comparative more unkempt, superlative most unkempt)

  1. uncombed, dishevelled.
    • He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.1916, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “John”, in Twilight in Italy, London: Duckworth and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 211–212
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Disorderly; untidy; messy; not kept up.
    • unkempt bedroom
  3. (figuratively) Rough; unpolished.

Questions about uncompt

What is uncompt the obsolete form of?
Uncompt is the obsolete form of unkempt.

Words near uncompt in the dictionary

  1. uncompromisedness
  2. uncompromising
  3. uncompromisingly
  4. uncompromisingness
  5. uncompromized
  6. uncompt
  7. uncompulsive
  8. uncompulsively
  9. uncompulsiveness
  10. uncompulsory
  11. uncomputability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncompt (page history and authors); unkempt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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