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agnostic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun agnostic has 2 senses
- agnostic(n = noun.person) doubter - someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- agnostic(n = noun.person) Array - a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist); Array is a kind of religious person
Derived form adjective agnostical1
Derived form adjective agnostical1
Adjective agnostic has 2 senses
- agnostic(a = adj.pert) Array - of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism; Array
- agnostic(a = adj.all) agnostical - uncertain of all claims to knowledge; Array Antonym: gnostic
CIDE DICTIONARY
agnostic, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + knowing, to know.].
Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. [1913 Webster]
agnostic, n.
One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
agnostic, n. & adj.
--n. a person who believes that nothing is known, or can be known, of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena.
--adj. of or relating to agnostics.
--n. a person who believes that nothing is known, or can be known, of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena.
--adj. of or relating to agnostics.
Derivative
agnosticism n.
Etymology
A-(1) + GNOSTIC
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agnostic
Humean, Humist, Pyrrhonic, Pyrrhonist, ambiguous, capricious, chancy, changeable, dicey, distrustful, doubter, doubtful, doubting, doubting Thomas, dubious, dubitante, equivocal, erratic, fickle, from Missouri, hesitant, hesitating, in doubt, incalculable, incredulous, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, polysemous, questioning, scoffer, scrupulous, shy, skeptic, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, untrusting, unverifiable, variable, wary, wavering, whimsicalROGET THESAURUS
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Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.
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