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cretinous
adjective as in asinine
adjective as in ignorant
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- dense
- green
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- nescient
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- unenlightened
- uninitiated
- unintellectual
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
adjective as in nescient
Weak matches
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- uninstructed
- unintellectual
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
adjective as in uninstructed
Weak matches
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- nescient
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- unintellectual
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
adjective as in unscholarly
Weak matches
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- nescient
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- unintellectual
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unstudious
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
Example Sentences
That’s the gist of journalist Maureen Ryan’s new book, “Burn It Down: Power: Complicity, and a Call to Change for Hollywood,” a partial overview of cretinous and sometimes felonious behavior in the TV business.
The country has had enough of Trump and his cretinous band of intolerant moles, who are more adept at living in the dark and feeding on garbage than the most resilient New York sewer rat.
“So hard. Just a thoroughly cretinous, irredeemable Mr Potato head.”
Even by the standards of the Donald Trump era, the stunt pulled by congressional Republicans on Wednesday was cretinous.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the then chair of the hardline European Research Group of Tory MPs, described it as “completely cretinous, impractical, bureaucratic and a betrayal of common sense”.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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