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say it: uhn-KEMPT
unkempt is an adjective meaning "not neatly combed". It is pronounced /ənˈkɛmpt/ — uhn-KEMPT. It carries 2 recorded senses.
not properly maintained or cared for
“an unkempt garden”
“native vistas and unkempt rambling paths”
“an ukempt appearance”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unkempt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.