Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

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

  • ‐ ὦ γῆσ λοχεύμαθ’, οὓσ Ἄρησ σπείρει ποτὲ λάβρον δράκοντοσ ἐξερημώσασ γένυν, οὐ σκῆπτρα, χειρὸσ δεξιᾶσ ἐρείσματα, ἀρεῖτε καὶ τοῦδ’ ἀνδρὸσ ἀνόσιον κάρα καθαιματώσεθ’, ὅστισ οὐ Καδμεῖοσ ὢν ἄρχει κάκιστοσ τῶν νέων ἔπηλυσ ὤν; (Euripides, Heracles, episode 3:1)
  • ἐγὼ κάκιστοσ ἦν ἄρ’ Ἀργείων ἀνήρ, ἐγὼ τὸ μηδέν, Μενέλεωσ δ’ ἐν ἀνδράσιν, ὡσ οὐχὶ Πηλέωσ, ἀλλ’ ἀλάστοροσ γεγώσ, εἴπερ φονεύει τοὐμὸν ὄνομα σῷ πόσει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 2:1)
  • Μενέλεωσ κάκιστοσ ἐσ ἐμὲ καὶ κασιγνήτην ἐμήν. (Euripides, episode, trochees9)
  • ὁ παρὰ τοῖσ Στωικοῖσ κάκιστοσ, ἂν οὕτω τύχῃ πρωῒ, δείλησ ἄριστοσ· (Plutarch, Compendium Argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere, section 41)
  • οὐχὶ θαυμάζω θεὸν ὃν χὡ κάκιστοσ ῥᾳδίωσ ἐκτήσατο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 49 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. Of circumstances

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