agnostic

Other forms of agnostic

plural

agnostics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agnostic

What does agnostic mean?

agnostic means "someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in agnostic?

agnostic has 3 syllables: ag-no-stic. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /æɡˈnɑstɪk/.

What is another word for agnostic?

Close synonyms include doubter, agnostical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of agnostic?

The recorded antonyms are gnostic.

Is agnostic a common word?

agnostic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with agnostic?

1 word rhymes with agnostic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.