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κακός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακός κακή κακόν

Structure: κακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

As a measure of quality: bad, worthless, useless
As a measure of appearance: ugly, hideous
Of circumstances: injurious, wretched, unhappy
As a measure of character: low, mean, vile, evil

Declension

First/Second declension

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	κακός	κακή	κακόν
	Genitive	κακοῦ	κακῆς	κακοῦ
	Dative	κακῷ	κακῇ	κακῷ
	Accusative	κακόν	κακήν	κακόν
	Vocative	κακέ	κακή	κακόν
Dual	N/A/V	κακώ	κακᾱ́	κακώ
Dual	G/D	κακοῖν	κακαῖν	κακοῖν
Plural	Nominative	κακοί	κακαί	κακά
	Genitive	κακῶν	κακῶν	κακῶν
	Dative	κακοῖς	κακαῖς	κακοῖς
	Accusative	κακούς	κακᾱ́ς	κακά
	Vocative	κακοί	κακαί	κακά

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	κακός κακοῦ	κακίων κακιονός	κακίστος κακιστοῦ
Adverb	κακώς	κακίον	κακίστα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

ἀλλὰ πάντα ταῦτα χρὴ μεμνημένουσ μὴ ’πιορκεῖν ἀλλὰ κρίνειν τοὺσ χοροὺσ ὀρθῶσ ἀεί, μηδὲ ταῖσ κακαῖσ ἑταίραισ τὸν τρόπον προσεικέναι, αἳ μόνον μνήμην ἔχουσι τῶν τελευταίων ἀεί. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Parabasis, epirrheme3)
"ὦ ἄνερ, ἀγωνίζομαι, τῆσ σῆσ εὐνοίασ πρὸσ ἐμὲ καὶ δόξησ καὶ δυνάμεωσ, ἣν διὰ σὲ καρποῦμαι πολλαῖσ ἐπίφθονοσ οὖσα κακαῖσ γυναιξὶν ὧν φάρμακα δεδοικυῖα καὶ μηχανὰσ ἐπείσθην ἀντιμηχανήσασθαι, μωρὰ μὲν ἴσωσ καὶ γυναικεῖα, θανάτου δ’ οὐκ ἄξια· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 4:1)
"ὦ ἄνερ ἀγωνίζομαι, τῆσ σῆσ εὐνοίασ πρὸσ ἐμὲ καὶ δόξησ καὶ δυνάμεωσ, ἣν διὰ σὲ καρποῦμαι πολλαῖσ ἐπίφθονοσ οὖσα κακαῖσ γυναιξὶν ὧν φάρμακα δεδοικυῖα καὶ μηχανὰσ; (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 12:1)
ἐν δὲ τῷ σέβασ ἀστῶν φόβοσ τε ξυγγενὴσ τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν σχήσει τό τ’ ἦμαρ καὶ κατ’ εὐφρόνην ὁμῶσ, αὐτῶν πολιτῶν μὴ ’πιχραινόντων νόμουσ κακαῖσ ἐπιρροαῖσι· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 7:10)
"σὺν δὲ κακαῖσ μανίαισ καὶ παρθένον ἐκ θαλάμοιο καὶ νύμφαν ἐφόβησ’ ἔτι δέμνια θερμὰ λιποῖσαν ἀνέροσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 96)

Synonyms

Of circumstances
- δάιος (unhappy, wretched)

κακῶς ()
χαρτός (that is matter of delight)
ἀγαθός (good)
ἐπιλήθω (to cause to forget)
ἐπίληθος (causing to forget)
φευκτός (to be shunned or avoided)
ἄχολος (allaying bile or anger)
νοσηρός (diseased)
νοσερός (of sickness)
φθαρτικός (destructive of)
πῆμα (suffering)
δορκάς (roe)
ὀφειλέτης (debtor)
ἀντέχω (to hold against)
θεήλατος (driven or hunted by a god)
ἀνίατος (incurable)
ἀνία (grief)
κολαστέος (to be chastised)
αὐθαίρετος (self-chosen)
καταγιγνώσκω (to remark)
ἀποτυγχάνω (to fail in hitting or gaining)
παῦλα (rest)
δυσαπάλλακτος (hard to get rid of)
βλαβερός (hurtful)
αὔχημα (a thing boasted of)
παραίτιος (being in part the cause)
ἀλγεινός (giving pain)
Εὐρῑπίδειος (Euripidean)
διχόνοια (discord)
συγγνωστός (to be pardoned)

Derived

ἄκακος (unknowing of ill, guileless, innocent)

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κακός

Sense

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Of circumstances

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Derived

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κακός

Sense

Declension

Examples

Synonyms

Of circumstances

Related

Derived

Similar forms

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Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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