Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unkempt
IPA transcription: [ənk'ɛmpt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: unkempt
    Meaning: not properly maintained or cared for; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"; "an ukempt appearance"
  • Synonyms: unkempt
    Meaning: not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"
Usage examples
  • I live here in this ancient house, surrounded by huge, unkempt gardens.
  • Their clothes grew ragged, their hair unkempt, their faces tanned by sun and wind.
  • Unkempt and unwashed, his long, black hair hung around a face sallow in the extreme.
  • From under their dirty headkerchiefs or straggly unkempt hair, the men who knew no other life but the sea, no happiness or danger unconnected with it, never took their eyes from their captain.
  • She was handed over to the governor of the prison, a short, thick-set man in black trousers and black-shag woollen shirt, and wearing a dirty red cap, with tricolour rosette on the side of his unkempt head.
  • The rulers of these mournful regions were the Furies who, with unkempt hair and armed with whips, tormented the condemned without mercy by showing them continually in mirrors the images of their former crimes.