agnostic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ag=nos=tic

CIDE DICTIONARY

agnostic, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + knowing, to know.].

 Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.  [1913 Webster]

agnostic, 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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

agnostic, n. & adj.
--n. a person who believes that nothing is known, or can be known, of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena.
--adj. of or relating to agnostics.

Derivative

agnosticism n.

Etymology

A-(1) + GNOSTIC

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

agnostic

Irreligion

N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.