Agnostic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Agnostic \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.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Agnostic \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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  agnostic
       adj : uncertain of all claims to knowledge [syn: {agnostical}]
             [ant: {gnostic}]
       n : a person who doubts truth of religion [syn: {doubter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     whimsical