cretin
Plural: cretins
Noun
- An offensively foolish or stupid person.
- a person of subnormal intelligence
- A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
- An idiot.
Examples
- I felt like a CRETIN for missing that obvious triple-word score opportunity.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
changeling, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard
Scrabble Score: 8
cretin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcretin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cretin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary