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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

ἢ δαίμων ἢ θεὸσ ἐκ θηρίων τοῦ κακίστου γενόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Compendium Argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere, section 4 3:1)
οὐ γὰρ δὴ πρέπειν γε Κράσσου πατρὸσ ἀνανδροτάτου καί κακίστου γενναῖον οὕτω παῖδα καί λαμπρὸν ἀρετῇ γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, chapter 26 4:1)
πολλῆσ δέ τινοσ γινομένησ ἀκρισίησ καὶ ποικιλίησ ἐπὶ τῶν νοσημάτων καὶ μεγίστου μὲν σημείου καὶ κακίστου διὰ τέλεοσ παρεπομένου τοῖσι πλείστοισιν ἀποσίτοισ εἶναι πάντων γευμάτων, μάλιστα δὲ τούτων, οἷσι καὶ τἄλλα ὀλεθρίωσ ἔχοι, διψώδεεσ οὐ λίην ἀκαίρωσ ἦσαν ἐπὶ τοῖσι πυρετοῖσι τούτοισι. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 88)
ἀλλ’ εἴτ’ ἀδελφῆσ εἴθ’ ὁμαιμονεστέρα τοῦ παντὸσ ἡμῖν Ζηνὸσ ἑρκείου κυρεῖ, αὐτή τε χἠ ξύναιμοσ οὐκ ἀλύξετον μόρου κακίστου· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 3:9)
τοιαῦτ’ ἀκούσασ κἀξονειδισθεὶσ κακὰ πλέω πρὸσ οἴκουσ, τῶν ἐμῶν τητώμενοσ πρὸσ τοῦ κακίστου κἀκ κακῶν Ὀδυσσέωσ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 4:19)

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)
νοσερός (of sickness)
νοσηρός (diseased)
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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