κάκιστος (kakistos)

κάκιστος is an Ancient Greek form of κακός, meaning “bad, evil, cowardly”. It is the nominative singular masculine superlative adjective.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.17.144: … τοῖς λόγοις τά τε ἄλλα ἔφη καὶ δὴ καὶ φιλόσοφος μὲν [τοι] τοιοῦτος, ἀνὴρ δὲ καὶ τῶν ὄντων καὶ τῶν γενησομένων κάκιστος. Ἐτελεύτα δὲ κατὰ τὸν Ἡρακλείδην τέταρτον καὶ ἑβδομηκοστὸν ἔτος βιούς. καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν ἡμῶν ἐστιν οὕτως ἔχον· ἔ …

Euripides, Medea 452: λέγουσ’ Ἰάσον’ ὡς κάκιστός ἐστ’ ἀνήρ·

All forms of κακός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.