dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/kem_MW.json
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{
"kempt":{
"antonyms":[
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"messy",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
],
"definitions":{
": neatly kept":[]
},
"examples":[
"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\u2019s worst enemy. \u2014 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. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 9 Feb. 2018",
"A well- kempt courtyard for visitors conceals the prison\u2019s overcrowding\u2014stuffed to nine times its capacity with up to 250 women sharing a cell. \u2014 National Geographic , 19 Oct. 2016"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1929, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"back-formation from unkempt":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kem(p)t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"bandbox",
"crisp",
"groomed",
"neat",
"orderly",
"picked up",
"prim",
"shipshape",
"smug",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trig",
"trim",
"uncluttered",
"well-groomed"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164900",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}