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Unkempt vs Bedraggled - What's the difference?

unkempt | bedraggled |

As adjectives the difference between unkempt and bedraggled

is that unkempt is dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up while bedraggled is wet and limp; unkempt.

As a verb bedraggled is

past tense of bedraggle.

unkempt

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up

    • Synonyms

    * dishevelled * slovenly

    bedraggled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • wet and limp; unkempt
  • decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
  • * 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
    • She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

    Derived terms

    * bedraggledly * bedraggledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bedraggle)