ag‧nos‧tic /æɡˈnɒstɪk, əɡ- $ -ˈnɑː-/
noun [countable][
Date: 1800-1900;
Language: Greek;
Origin: agnostos 'unknown, unknowable', from a- 'not' + gnostos 'known']
someone who believes that people cannot know whether God exists or not ⇒
atheist—agnostic adjective—agnosticism /-təsɪz
əm, -tɪsɪz
əm/
noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
god a male spirit or being who is believed by some religions to control the world or part of it, or who represents a particular quality:
Odin was the Viking god of war.goddess a female god:
Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moondeity a god.
Deity is more formal than
god:
a Hindu deity Roman deities the Supreme Deityidol a picture or statue that people pray to as a god:
a bronze idolatheist noun, adjective someone who believes that God does not exist:
I’m a confirmed atheist.agnostic noun, adjective someone who believes that people cannot know whether God exists or not:
He was an agnostic rather than an atheist. [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲