† uncomptadj.
Obsolete.
1. Of persons: Not neat in dress or appearance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] > of person, clothes, etc.
rowsey1565
slovenlya1568
sloven-like1569
uncompta1641
frowzy1710
blowzed1766
blowzyc1770
tousy1786
frowzled1808
sloven1821
hashy1825
tously1832
tousled1847
tuzzy-muzzy1847
unsleek1859
tousled-looking1860
slouchy1864
scraggly1869
frowzly1872
sploshy1881
schlumpy1956
streelish1974
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 247 The cited to appeare in Court, came in humble manner,..attired in black, uncompt, undrest.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 104 Nor was this the originall trick of the rude and uncompt Germans or Barbarous Britons, but of the wise Greeks.
2. Of style: Incompt, inelegant, unpolished.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective]
wanmola1325
rudea1393
lewdc1425
rustyc1425
unpolisheda1450
roidc1485
inelegant1509
gross1513
rough?1520
barbarous1526
ineloquent1532
inconcinnate1534
crabby1550
crabbed1561
uneloquent1565
unelegant1570
unkempt1579
unfiled1590
illiterate1598
unconceived1599
aliterate1624
incompta1628
scabbed1630
uncombed1633
uncompt1633
uncouth1694
coarse1699
slatternly1783
crude1786
warty1822
stumbling1859
1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix 925 Whenever I fell to read the Prophets after I had beene reading Tully and Plautus,..their uncompt stile became irkesome to me.
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