cretinous

Variant of cretin

noun

  1. a person suffering from cretinism
  2. a very stupid or foolish person

Origin: Fr crétin, dial. form of chrétien; lit., Christian, hence human being (in contrast to brutes) < LL(Ec) Christianus, Christian: sense development as in silly

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