agnosticnoun [ C ]
uk/æɡˈnɒs.tɪk/us/æɡˈnɑː.stɪk/someone who does not know, or believes that it is impossible to know, if a god exists:
Although he was raised a Catholic, he was an agnostic for most of his adult life.
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atheist
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Religious people: believers & non-believers
- apophatic
- apostasy
- apostate
- atheist
- believer
- faithless
- freethinker
- God-fearing
- godless
- hard core
- heathen
- humanism
- non-believer
- parishioner
- pilgrim
- revisionism
- secularism
- skeptic
- the laity
- theist
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agnosticadjective
uk/æɡˈnɒs.tɪk/us/æɡˈnɑː.stɪk/agnostic adjective (BELIEF)
having the beliefs of an agnostic
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Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
- animism
- anticlerical
- ascetic
- atheist
- credo
- creed
- cult
- doctrine
- faith can move mountains idiom
- fetish
- heresy
- humanism
- monotheism
- mysticism
- orthodoxy
- pagan
- religiously
- secular humanism
- theism
- theology
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agnostic adjective (COMPUTING)
specialized computing relating to hardware or software that can be used with many different types of platform (= system)
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Computer hardware
- 3-D printer
- blackberry
- brick
- bubblejet
- codec
- handheld
- joypad
- Macintosh
- micro
- microcomputer
- mouse
- personal organizer
- ram
- storage device
- tablet
- toggle
- trackball
- underscore
- VDT
- word processor
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agnosticism
noun [ U ] uk/æɡˈnɒs.tɪ.sɪ.zəm/us/æɡˈnɑː.stə.sɪ.zəm/