Cretin
//ˈkɹiːtɪn// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. archaic
- 2 a person of subnormal intelligence wordnet
- 3 An idiot. broadly, derogatory
"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 […]"
Example
More examples"Cultural Anthropology studies the tradition and norms of people and the rules they made as how they interact with one another or behave in some cretin ways."
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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