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单词 kempt
释义

kempt

adjective

ˈkem(p)t How to pronounce kempt (audio)
: neatly kept

Synonyms

  • antiseptic
  • bandbox
  • crisp
  • groomed
  • neat
  • orderly
  • picked up
  • prim
  • shipshape
  • smug
  • snug
  • tidied
  • tidy
  • trig
  • trim
  • uncluttered
  • well-groomed
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Example Sentences

a distinguished-looking gentleman with a kempt beard and an old-world manner
Recent Examples on the Web Silence your internal neat freak A well-kempt garden is the toad’s worst enemy. Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2017 There was a whiff of mystery, a sense that something more was going on behind those well-kempt exteriors. Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2018 A well-kempt courtyard for visitors conceals the prison’s overcrowding—stuffed to nine times its capacity with up to 250 women sharing a cell. National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2016

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from unkempt

First Known Use

1929, in the meaning defined above

kempt

adjective

as in tidy
being clean and in good order a distinguished-looking gentleman with a kempt beard and an old-world manner

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • tidy
  • tidied
  • trim
  • neat
  • groomed
  • orderly
  • well-groomed
  • uncluttered
  • shipshape
  • prim
  • crisp
  • antiseptic
  • immaculate
  • organized
  • bandbox
  • smug
  • picked up
  • snug
  • trig
  • spiffy
  • dapper
  • spotless
  • sleek
  • natty
  • spruce
  • taut
  • saucy
  • spic-and-span
  • streamlined
  • spick-and-span
  • rakish
  • systematic
  • smart
  • straight

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • unkempt
  • disheveled
  • untidy
  • slovenly
  • messy
  • dishevelled
  • disorderly
  • disordered
  • shabby
  • scruffy
  • dirty
  • mussed
  • sloppy
  • filthy
  • slipshod
  • seedy
  • sloven
  • mussy
  • squalid
  • rumpled
  • sordid
  • foul
  • nasty
  • dowdy
  • disorganized
  • frowzy
  • tousled
  • tumbled
  • frowsy
  • unsystematic
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