cretinous

adjective

Definition of cretinousnext
as in imbecilic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cretinous
  1. fatuous
  2. brainless
  3. vacuous
  4. brain-dead
  5. stupid
  6. idiotic
  7. unintelligent
  8. witless
Adjective
  • This fatuous facial gesture is immediately relatable but also, as Locke discusses below, one that can be read in a number of different ways.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Schools must accept that mission statements without curriculum alignment are fatuous; the way schools define themselves is through the experience that flows from their curriculum.
    Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of fatuous
Adjective
  • The O’Haras happen to move in next door to him. Frothy and often filthy without being brainless (send thanks across the Atlantic for that good British dialogue), this is escapism done right.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
  • So, what can the neuronal activity of a tiny, brainless creature possibly tell us about the evolution of our own complex brains?
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 June 2024
Definition of brainless
Adjective
  • Any clever editor can bend them to accommodate the raison d’etre of all but the most vacuous pieces of journalism.
    Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The songs almost never advanced plot, and instead over-indulged in vacuous character study.
    Samantha Allen, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of vacuous
Adjective
  • Her doctor, Jayme Locke, then an abdominal transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, had previously led short-term pig kidney transplants in brain-dead recipients and suggested the experimental procedure as a last resort.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Nadella doesn’t say outright what everyone in the room knows: Just a decade ago, pundits had declared the company brain-dead.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of brain-dead
Adjective
  • The Boke character, which would be Johnson, is the one who will make a mistake on purpose, or make a stupid joke.
    Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of stupid
Adjective
  • Too many young people are making idiotic short-term financial decisions that hamper long-term success.
    Chandler Dean, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Beyond the Lungs Two other cardiac cases impressed me — and blew away the idiotic notion that young people are immune to COVID-19.
    Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2020
Definition of idiotic
Adjective
  • In short: Wells assumed Neanderthals were unintelligent brutes.
    Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • But the gullible, easily-led and unintelligent — and the media — all fall for the lie.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of unintelligent
Adjective
  • By most accounts, Trump’s ground game—powered by the witless Musk—was a bit of a mess, but Harris’s professional field operation seems to have been helpless to stem the tide of Trump’s support.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But apparently, California just couldn’t abide this challenge to its primacy as the most witless state in the union.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of witless
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