Synonym for: Bad, Evil.

See Definition for \kakov\ 2556 See Definition for \ponhrov\ 4190 See Definition for \faulov\ 5337

These words may be used with very little distinction of meaning, but often the difference is marked. \kakov\ frequently means evil rather negatively, referring to the absence of the qualities which constitute a person or thing what it should be or what it claims to be. It is also used meaning evil in a moral sense. It is a general antithesis to \agayov\.

\ponhrov\ is a word at once stronger and more active, it means mischief-making, delighting in injury, doing evil to others, dangerous, destructive. \kakov\ describes the quality according to its nature, \ponhrov\, according to its effects.

\faulov\ is the bad chiefly as the worthless, the good for nothing.