cretinnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkret.ɪn/us/ˈkriː.t̬ən/offensivea very stupid person
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stupid and silly people
- a right one idiom
- airhead
- asshole
- berk
- birdbrain
- doofus
- dork
- duffer
- dullard
- dummy
- muggins
- muppet
- mutt
- need
- need your head examined idiom
- simpleton
- stupid
- thicko
- tosser
- turkey
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cretinous
adjective uk/ˈkret.ɪ.nəs/us/ˈkriː.t̬ən.əs/
Examples from literature
- Documentation that has been obsessively dumbed down, to the point where only a cretin could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the 'drool-proof paper syndrome' or to have been 'written on drool-proof paper'.
- She began by assuming that she was not talking to idiots and cretins, but to men and women of mature minds—so she could speak as she thought in a forthright manner.
- These cretins are peculiarly a feeble-minded people.