Definitions for cretin

cretin cre·tin

Spelling: [kreet-n or, esp. British, kret-n]
IPA: /ˈkrit n or, esp. British, ˈkrɛt n/

Cretin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in cretin (ceinrt).

Definitions for cretin

noun

  1. a person suffering from cretinism.
  2. a stupid, obtuse, or mentally defective person.

Origin of cretin

1770-80; French; Franco-Provençal creitin, crestin human being, literally, Christian (hence one who is human despite deformities)

Examples for cretin

Another author mentions a cretin who could tell exactly the birthdays and death-days of the inhabitants of his town for a decade.

Only twelve kinds of a cretin would have gone on when faced with anything like this.

It is very commonly accompanied by idiocy; and, in fact, the cretin is one of the most distressing objects that can be seen.

Of course, many people have goitre who are not cretins, but there is no cretin who has not goitre.

The cretin, whose eyes caught a glimpse of the cake, laughed, and began to try to reach out her hand to take it.

On the Rigi his musings on the magnificence of the view are checked by the presence of a cretin.

Something of the goître and cretin influence seems to settle on my spirits sometimes, on the lower ground.

The poetical whim of cretin, a French poet, brought into fashion punning or equivocal rhymes.

Every crank's whim, every cretin's philosophy, is fired at him first of all.

“It was rather a chouse to shoot a cretin, though,” said another, in chaff.

Word Value for cretin
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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