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AGNOSTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("agnostic" is a kind of...):
religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)
Derivation:
agnostical (uncertain of all claims to knowledge)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something
Synonyms:
agnostic; doubter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("agnostic" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
agnostical (uncertain of all claims to knowledge)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uncertain of all claims to knowledge
Synonyms:
agnostic; agnostical
Classified under:
Similar:
nescient; unbelieving (holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible)
Antonym:
gnostic (possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
agnostic (a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist))
agnosticism (the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge)
