agnostic as a noun: - 1
- 2
as an adjective: - 1
- 2
agnostic
noun
1 agnostic
Someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
synonym: doubter.
Roget 989:
irreligion†,
indevotion†;
godlessness,
ungodliness
etc.
adj.;
laxity,
quietism.
skepticism,
doubt;
unbelief,
disbelief;
incredulity,
incredulousness
etc.
adj.†;
want of faith,
want of belief;
pyrrhonism;
bout
etc.
485;
agnosticism.
atheism;
deism;
hylotheism†;
materialism;
positivism;
nihilism.
infidelity,
freethinking,
antichristianity†,
rationalism;
neology.
[person who is not religious]
atheist,
skeptic,
unbeliever,
deist,
infidel,
pyrrhonist;
giaour†,
heathen,
alien,
gentile,
Nazarene;
espri fort [Fr.],
freethinker,
latitudinarian,
rationalist;
materialist,
positivist,
nihilist,
agnostic,
somatist†,
theophobist†.
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Polish: agnostyk
2 agnostic
A person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist).
Dutch: agnosticus
Polish: agnostyk
adjective
1 agnostic
Of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism.
Polish: agnostyczny
2 agnostic
Uncertain of all claims to knowledge.
synonym: agnostical.
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