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English Dictionary: Agnostic by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
agnostic
adj
  1. of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism
  2. uncertain of all claims to knowledge
    Synonym(s): agnostic, agnostical
    Antonym(s): gnostic
n
  1. someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something
    Synonym(s): agnostic, doubter
  2. a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Agnostic \Ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + [?] knowing, [?] to
      know.]
      Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or
      involving agnosticism. -- {Ag*nos"tic*al*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Agnostic \Ag*nos"tic\, 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.
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