ike

meaning

bad, negative; non-essential, irrelevant | ALT complicated, complex

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 me on its own, so I might call it ike, but a baby might enjoy it a lot, so despite being overly simple for me, 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