well-kempt adjective1 •Of a person, place, or thing, maintained in a very neat, clean, orderly, and well-groomed manner.GOLD BAR, now a well-kempt town, was in 1899 a rough camp named by hopeful miners. Later it became a logging center and railroad construction camp. — 1990 formsbetter-kempt · more well-kempt · best-kempt · most well-kempt