Meaning of AGNOSTIC
| Pronunciation: | | ag'nâstik
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- [n] a person who doubts truth of religion
- [adj] uncertain of all claims to knowledge
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| | Synonyms: | | agnostical, doubter, nescient, noncommital, unbelieving, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| | Antonyms: | | gnostic | | |
| | See Also: | | nonreligious person | |
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\Ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + ? knowing, ? to know.]
Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or
involving agnosticism. -- {Ag*nos"tic*al*ly}, adv.
\Ag*nos"tic\, 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.
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| | Related Terms: | | ambiguous, capricious, chancy, changeable, dicey, distrustful, doubter, doubtful, doubting, doubting Thomas, dubious, dubitante, equivocal, erratic, fickle, from Missouri, hesitant, hesitating, Humean, Humist, in doubt, incalculable, incredulous, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, polysemous, Pyrrhonic, Pyrrhonist, 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, whimsical |
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