unkempt - Dictionary definition and meaning for word unkempt
Drop the 'm' from unkempt. It becomes 'UNKEPT'...UN+KEPT, something not kept properly or maintained like hair. or someone who is dowdy, untamed.
remember JUSTIN KEMP South Afrcian cricket player...whose hair r always untidy......
remember kemp fort in bangalore. it was very well maintained. now a mall is being built at that place and they have unkempt it.
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un tempt girl, uncared for her appearance & not combed.
Kempt sound close to combed so unkempt is uncombed, shabby.
un+kempt—kempt means neat and tidy, unkempt means the opposite