Un‐kempt″ (?; 215), a. [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p. of kemb.] 1. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
2. Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
My rhymes be rugged and unkempt. Spenser.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.