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unkemmed

unkemmed 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.

Forms of unkemmed

comparativemore unkemmed
superlativemost unkemmed

Questions about unkemmed

What is unkemmed the obsolete form of?
Unkemmed is the obsolete form of unkempt.

Words near unkemmed in the dictionary

  1. unkegs
  2. unkel
  3. Unkelbach
  4. unkels
  5. unkembed
  6. unkemmed
  7. unkempt
  8. unkemptitude
  9. unkemptly
  10. unkemptness
  11. unken

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unkemmed (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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