agnostic
noun
a person who holds that the answers to the basic questions of existence, such as the nature of the ultimate cause and whether or not there is a supreme being, are unknown or unknowable.
agnostically
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a word derived from
agnostic.
Example Sentences
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Few people were more agnostically alive than Stoppard, who loved the finer things in life and handsomely earned them with his inexhaustible wit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
He added that, overall, the panel’s outcome was a “win-win” development and that a hunt for out of the ordinary objects should be based on “seeking new data agnostically with well-calibrated and controlled instruments.”
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023
Families that run the gamut from religiously conservative to agnostically liberal.
From The Verge ● Nov. 21, 2018
His postmodern psalm, “Who by Fire,” rehearses the many possible worldly means of death, and parries agnostically, “And who shall I say is calling?”
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2016
"Then we are to make an offensive and defensive alliance without trust or faith in each other?" agnostically remarked Hawke.
From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Richard Savage
