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Definition of Agnostic
1. Noun. Someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Derivative terms: Agnostical, Doubt
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism.
3. Noun. A person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist).
4. Adjective. Uncertain of all claims to knowledge.
Definition of Agnostic
1. a. Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
2. 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.
Definition of Agnostic
1. Noun. A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents. ¹
3. Adjective. Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity. ¹
4. Adjective. (context: computing) A software component (or other entity) that is unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components with which it interacts; polymorphic; modular; pluggable ¹
5. Adjective. (context: usually with a prepositional phrase) Having no firmly held opinions on an issue or matter of uncertainty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agnostic
1. one who disclaims any knowledge of God [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agnostic
Literary usage of Agnostic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"Let the agnostic not only come to church but communicate also. ... As to the
objection that by communicating ' the agnostic is supporting a superstitious ..."
2. Modern Ideas of Evolution as Related to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson (1890)
"CHAPTER VI agnostic EVOLUTION BETWEEN the position of the materialistic or ener-
... The agnostic declines to be called an infidel or an atheist, ..."
3. A Student's Philosophy of Religion by William Kelley Wright (1922)
"An excellent rebuttal to the agnostic on this point is furnished by the "right
to believe" argument of William James. As is often the case with a popular ..."
4. The Field of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919)
"(b) The agnostic relativist points to the fact that the language and the very
contents and meanings of the speech of revealers are conditioned ..."
5. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1898)
"WAS JOB AN agnostic? IN this paper we purpose simply and solely to treat of the
Book of Job as a reflective poem with a view to discover how far it may be ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(g) Lesions Causing agnostic Disturbances Here we are even less informed than
for the aphasic disturbances. The different clinical forms of agnosia have ..."
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