unkempt

adjective

1. not combed: unkempt hair.
2. uncared-for or neglected; disheveled; messy: unkempt clothes; an unkempt lawn.
3. unpolished; rough; crude.

adjective

1. (of the hair) uncombed; dishevelled
2. ungroomed; slovenlyunkempt appearance
3. archaic crude or coarse

adj.1570s, from un- (1) “not” + kempt “well-combed, neat,” from variant past participle of Old English cemban “to comb,” from Proto-Germanic *kambijan, from *kamb- “comb” (see comb). Form unkembed is recorded from late 14c. The verb kemb is rare after 1400s, but its negative past participle form endures.