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κακός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακός κακή κακόν

Structure: κακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative κακός κακή κακόν
Genitive κακοῦ κακῆς κακοῦ
Dative κακῷ κακῇ κακῷ
Accusative κακόν κακήν κακόν
Vocative κακέ κακή κακόν
DualN/A/V κακώ κακᾱ́ κακώ
G/D κακοῖν κακαῖν κακοῖν
PluralNominative 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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἀηδεστέρα καὶ κάκιον ἑλληνίζουσα καὶ παχυτέρα φαίνεται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 5:2)
  • κάκιον ἀπολοίμην ἂν ἢ σύ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 1:39)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ γάρ ἐστι τῶν ἀναισχύτων φύσει γυναικῶν οὐδὲν κάκιον εἰσ ἄπαντα πλὴν ἄρ’ εἰ γυναῖκεσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, 1)
  • φρονοῦσι γὰρ κάκιον Ἑλλήνων πολύ. (Euripides, episode 3:9)
  • ἄνδρ’ εἶχεσ οὐ κακίον’ Αἰγίσθου πόσιν, ὃν Ἑλλὰσ αὑτῆσ εἵλετο στρατηλάτην· (Euripides, episode, anapests 4:12)

Synonyms

  1. Of circumstances

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