on the brink of (adverb) almost: nearly, very nearly
Sinonime: bedraggled,
coarse,
crude, dilapidated, dirty, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled, disordered, grubby, grungy, messed up, messy, mussed up,
neglected,
rough, rumpled, scruffy, shaggy, slipshod, slovenly, tousled, unclean, uncombed, unfastidious, ungroomed, unimproved, unneat, unpolished, untidy,
vulgarAntonime: kempt,
neat, tidy,
trim