i Register
In some senses, unkempt is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Of hair, uncombed, dishevelled.
He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.
Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.
Disorderly; untidy; messy; not kept up.
unkempt bedroom
And his egotism and conceit were not to be borne; and then he was both tawdry and dirty in his person; more greasily, mattedly unkempt than even a really successful pianist has any right to be, even in the best society.
Rough; unpolished.