ike

meaning

negative quality, e.g. bad, unpleasant, harmful, unneeded

semantic space · lipamanka

ike is any negative quality. Anything can be ike. ike is a judgement call. what one person considers ike can be pona to another. For example, the complexity of computer coding is not a good thing for me, so I'd call it ike. But for a lot of my friends, that same complexity is pona! the simple melody of "mary had a little lamb" is boring to many people on its own, so they might call it ike. But a baby might enjoy it a lot, so despite being overly simple for adults in an anglophone culture, it's just right for that baby, i.e. pona. If something isn't bad, you can't use ike to describe it without framing it as such. ike can mean complex and simple just as easily as pona can.

ku translations

bad¹⁰⁰ harsh⁸² badly⁸¹ mean (adj)⁷⁷ evil⁷⁵ negative⁷³ problem⁷⁰ horrible⁶⁷ terrible⁶¹ unfortunate⁶⁰ poorly⁵⁹ offensive⁵⁷ awful⁵⁵ trouble⁵³ tragic⁵⁰ cruel⁴⁶ wrong⁴³ complexity⁴² inappropriate⁴² issue⁴² awkward⁴⁰ unfair⁴⁰ complicated³⁹ vice³⁶ hostile³³ difficulty³¹ nasty³¹ corrupt³⁰ corruption³⁰ challenging²⁹ complex²⁹ cursed²⁹ danger²⁹ hard (difficult)²⁹ harm²⁹ chaos²⁷ difficult²⁷ toxic²⁷ disorder²⁶