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cretin

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɹɛtɪn/Part of speech nounSorted ceinrtStarts with CEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person of subnormal intelligence

Word origin

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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  • 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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