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|mdlsjtxt=κᾰκός, ή, όν<br />bad, Lat. [[malus]]:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> of persons,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> opp. to [[καλός]], [[mean]], [[ugly]], Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> opp. to [[ἀγαθός]], [[ἐσθλός]], ill-[[born]], [[mean]], [[ignoble]], Hom., Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[craven]], [[cowardly]], [[base]], Hom., Hdt., [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">4.</b> bad of his [[kind]], i. e. [[worthless]], [[sorry]], [[poor]], κ. [[ἀλήτης]] a [[sorry]] [[beggar]], Od.; κ. [[ἰατρός]] Aesch.; κ. [[ναύτης]] Eur.; πάντα [[κακός]] bad in all things, Od.; κακὸς γνώμην Soph.;— c. inf., κακὸς μανθάνειν bad at [[learning]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> in [[moral]] [[sense]], bad, [[evil]], [[wicked]], Od., [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of [[death]], [[disease]], etc., bad, [[evil]], [[baneful]], Hom., [[attic]]; of omens, bad, [[unlucky]], [[attic]]; of words, [[evil]], [[abusive]], Soph.; κ. [[ποιμήν]], i. e. the [[storm]], Aesch.<br />B. [[κακόν]], and κακά, τά, as [[substantive]] [[evil]], ill, Od., Hdt., etc.; δυοῖν ἀποκρίνας κακοῖν having [[chosen]] the [[least]] of two evils, Soph.:— [[κακόν]] τι ἔρδειν or ῥέζειν τινά to do [[evil]] or ill to any one, Il.; κακὸν (or κακὰ) ποιεῖν τινά [[attic]]; κακὰ κακῶν = τὰ κάκιστα, Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> kaka/, ta/, also [[evil]] words, reproaches, Hdt., Trag.<br />C. degrees of Comparison:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> regul. comp. κακώτερος Od., Theocr.; but [[never]] in [[attic]]:—irreg. [[κακίων]], ον, [ with ῐ], Hom., with ῑ], [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">2.</b> Sup. [[κάκιστος]], Hom., etc.:—but [[χείρων]], [[χείριστος]], and [[ἥσσων]], [[ἥκιστος]], are also used as comp. and Sup.<br />D. adv. [[κακῶς]], Lat. [[male]], ill, Il., etc.:— [[κακῶς]] ποιεῖν τινα to [[treat]] one ill; [[κακῶς]] ποιεῖν τινά τι to do one any [[evil]], [[attic]]; [[κακῶς]] πράσσειν to [[fare]] ill, Aesch.; [[κακῶς]] πάσχειν Aesch.; [[κακῶς]] γίγνεταί τινι Hdt.; [[κακῶς]] ἐκπέφευγα, Lat. vix [[demum]] effugi, Dem.:—comp. [[κάκιον]], Hdt., [[attic]]: Sup. κάκιστα, Ar., etc.<br />E. in Compos., [[when]] added to words [[already]] signifying [[something]] bad, it increases [[this]] [[property]], as in κακο-πινής; but added to words signifying [[something]] [[good]], it implies too [[little]] of [[this]] [[property]], as in κακό-δοξος. Once or [[twice]] it stands [[merely]] as an adj. agreeing with the Subst. with [[which]] it is compounded, as [[Κακοΐλιος]] for κακὴ [[Ἴλιος]], [[κακόνυμφος]] for κακὸς [[νυμφίος]].