1. (a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.

2. (a.) Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.

Gothic Neanderthal animal barbarian barbaric barbarous beat-up bedraggled bestial blowzy broken brutal brutish bumpy careless chintzy choppy coarse coarse-grained corrugated cross-grained dilapidated disarranged disheveled disordered drabbletailed draggled draggletailed frowzy frumpish frumpy grainy granulated grubby homespun horripilant ill-bred impolite in rags inequal informal irregular jolty linsey-woolsey loose lumpen messy mussy negligent noncivilized outlandish pimply pitted pocky poky potholed primitive ragged raggedy rank ripply rough rough-and-ready rough-cast rough-grained rough-hewn ruffled ruinous rumpled rutted rutty savage scraggly scruffy seedy shabby shagged shaggy shoddy slack slatternly slipshod sloppy slovenly sluttish sordid squalid tacky tattered textured tousled troglodytic uncivil uncivilized uncombed uncouth uncultivated uncultured uneven unfastidious unlevel unlicked unneat unpolished unrefined unsightly unsmooth untamed untidy ununiform wild wimpled