Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of not being neat.
Although his existential thoughts seem to have been tossed onto the page in helter-skelter fashion, what Gilboa does here is to open his mind and heart to the reader through verbal jaggedness and poetic unneatness.
1994, Warren Bargad, "To Write the Lips of Sleepers": The Poetry of Amir Gilboa, page 2321 more example
Every possible care was taken of him, and in a day or two he was able to walk into the study again, where he sat gazing at the sordidness and unneatness of the apartment, the strange festoons and drapery of spiders' webs, […]
1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret
Origin
Translations
Finnish epäsiisteys, epäsiistiys
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German Ungepflegtheit
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Polish bezporządek
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unneatness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unneatness
“unneatness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unneatness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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