| 单词 | unkempt |
| 例句 | unkempt adjective •unkempt hair:untidy, messy, scruffy, straggly, disordered, disheveled, disarranged, rumpled, wind-blown, ungroomed, bedraggled, in a mess, mussed, messed up | tousled, uncombed. ANT tidy.WORD NOTE kempt Kempt and couth belong to a set of orphan positives: they are words that are more commonly heard in the negative. It's entertaining to use words that fall a little further into this set: crepit (instead of decrepit), advertent (instead of inadvertent), (and on the sillier side) combobulated and chalant (instead of discombobulated and nonchalant). These (like any joke) can be annoying and cloying if used too often, but once in a while I like to remind readers and myself that even long-cemented prefixes can be wrenched away from their stems. You can also do this with words that don't even, strictly speaking, have prefixes—only parts that look like prefixes. My favorite "de-prefixed" invention is livious —although it's hard to use this one since there are so few opportunities to employ it, compared with its parent, oblivious. — EMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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