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cretin

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkɹɛtɪn/(UK)
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/ˈkɹɛtɪn/(UK) · /ˈkɹiːtɪn/(US) · /ˈkɹɛtɪn/(US)

Definition of cretin

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
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noun

  1. (archaic)A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
  2. (broadly, derogatory)An idiot.
    “When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin. He got very supercilious and condescending […]”

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Etymology

From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), likely from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Latin christiānus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.

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