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Cretin vs Ignoramus - What's the difference?

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Cretin is a related term of ignoramus.


As nouns the difference between cretin and ignoramus

is that cretin is idiot, fool, bastard, fuckwit etc while ignoramus is a totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool or ignoramus can be (legal|dated) a grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

As an adjective cretin

is stupid; idiotic; foolish etc.

cretin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
  • (pejorative) An idiot.
  • * 1969 , Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes
    • 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

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * cretinism * cretinize * cretinoid * cretinous

    External links

    * (Cretinism)

    ignoramus

    English

    Etymology 1

    After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play by the English playwright Georges Ruggle; from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
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    Etymology 2

    Directly from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (ignoramuses)
  • (legal, dated) A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.
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