🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯
檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
- luo 43
- noir 59
- wholehearted 202
- schmo 65
- sceptral 34
- fated 194
- mats 30
- aesthetically 100
- freezing point 90
- substantiality 56
- Grand Prix 81
- Education 193
- nightclubbing 35
- dish towel 92
- do-nothing 67
- Platinum 58
- cited 48
- amidst 103
- moisturizer 195
- electrostatics 47
- Jacuzzi 62
- Transformer 36
- citation 286
- Scorn 169
- specialise 33
- bt 95
- fly in the face of 34
- see to it 10
- missis 47
- east 165
- fob 175
- pls 44
- devilish 107
- cut-and-dried 122
- arkansan 48
- sugar daddy 56
- in order to 32
- pay packet 46
- mystical 57
- rhinovirus 40
- back away 97
- cuddler 46
- destinies 70
- earful 122
- Picture 212
- Jamaica 120
- Reasoned 133
- ounce 502
- pedophile 80
- public sector 94
- Liquidity 119
- monopolist 189
- ponytail 59
- fatties 47
- trumpeter 58
- marvelling 37
- witty 155
- condescend 107
- cincinnati 48
- pediatrist 29
- boil up 110
- pot plant 47
- illinois 70
- live 343
- boondocks 133
- legato 67
- locked 40
- Silent 198
- vertebrate 64
- Embellishments 34
- palladous 36
- fibbing 43
- himalayas 22
- crappy 115
- Benin 83
- ill 175
- gentleman 522
- bona fide 153
- cloisters 50
- template 176
- atria 44
- extendable 83
- unassailability 75
- businessperson 111
- implicate 165
- troubleshooting 43
- world beater 53
- delivering 35
- beneficial 519
- casework 117
- strikes 72
- Facade 94
- wry 185
- dippier 40
- fraternity 158
- pastries 32
- Sheet 116
- sampling 56
- DEPLORABLE 94
- Adam 79
- Macedonia 47
- informatics 43
- yesterday 96
- wimpishness 26
- Pastry 231
- condign 80
- geophysics 119
- mudpack 44
- forgery 137
- double-breasted 69
- penciling 61
- holmium 45
- universal suffrage 23
- civics 91
- kennels 42
- hostel 209
- lobby 235
- clock on 61
- med 150
- trapezium 53
- ginormous 77
- escheat 64
- conflict 544
- noh 48
- underfund 43
- daubingly 42
- discontinued 97
- snippy 109
- Fingertip 97
- couchette 61
- scanning 32
- crew neck 119
- preselect 48
- despotic 110
- Furthermore 174
- gothamite 40
- noted 79
- Strength 192
- scoundrelly 30
- combs 40
- buttoned up 63
- Globe 123
- Mix 303
- facepalm 59
- departure 512
- claque 51
- Normality 64
- sicklier 27
- arctic 135
- nonet 46
- pay tv 99
- clergyable 39
- northwest territories 60
- Mentorship 7
- chadian 59
- borrow 251
- longshoreman 73
- Significance 103
- occidentalism 44
- compilement 42
- at a Time 64
- jazzy 98
- baker 128
- Woolen 97
- flukiest 26
- Revive 165
- bedevil 191
- A La Carte 8
- housemistress 51
- HORIZON 117
- grow out 90
- effigies 47
- rash 275
- brilliantine 53
- trimeter 31
- surpassing 142
- memoir 209
- emphatically 144
- demagogies 53
- incentive 247
- Expressing 43
- quoting 43
- hearsay 99
- lawman 64
- fall guy 102
- Strategic 105
- Encouraging 255
- refuge 533
- hooklet 45
- disaffected 146
- vanillin 40
- splashy 75
- locket 67
- slicker 111
- thud 109
- creature 546
- jetty 190
- nutty 167
- galahad 37
- prewar 68
- malignancies 36
- Spell 231
- branded 170
- copperplate 79
- sweeten 125
- unedifying 63
- cringe 210
- afk 52
- offers 53
- honor 330
- pectin 63
- egotistical 91
- diagonal 142
- livelihood 136
- Hassle 226
- dawdle 134
- overtop 57
- ambiguously 98
- Apartment 241
- clanswoman 79
- ducky 112
- gauger 67
- personalize 187
- Breadth 191
- drop-in 74
- magnificent 520
- sticks 44
- snooty 118
- floppy 147
- smocking 55
- Slop 55
- outright 190
- bantam 102
- snap out of 72
- let alone 70
- nickelous 46
- waterproof 438
- flier 132
- shanghai 73
- priapism 45
- takings 56
- nonplussed 78
- stouthearted 67
- concupiscence 67
- inception 143
- nohow 46
- fool around 112
- rationale 89
- soprano 113
- obscurantism 92
- Deposit 188
- monetarism 60
- gastronomy 118
- Sacred 125
- jewry 55
- funky 147
- shopwalker 45
- ooze 245
- loins 35
- benchmarking 61
- resident 481
- deader 31
- surpass 195
- rearise 37
- Tenuous 163
- malefaction 44
- mia 42
- hr 92
- asst. 124
- gin 267
- Pole 405
- adopting 82
- biggie 124
- projected 40
- dopping 35
- monokini 35
- Deport 79
- intemperate 215
- Frilled 10
- Orangutan 17
- hour 255
- invent 567
- oneself 463
- coarsely 133
- sahib 57
- wasteful 126
- make 302
- Patches 26
- sponsor 611
- metamorphose 85
- Telephones 33
- Fillet 149
- recorder 537
- rack up 56
- corollaries 44
- absinthe 141
- Complicate 104
- crotchet 117
- -eer 66
- deactivate 123
- gallows 114
- discouragingly 12
- legalise 40
- matcha 44
- Administer 249
- obligatoriness 39
- Kerosene 14
- rubber stamp 78
- Artisan 96
- consent 536
- creature comfort 81
- Apportion 15
- corn bread 99
- tucker 268
- celerity 80
- currency 213
- clean-cut 87
- Remember 194
- Miracle 191
- intemperance 183
- 40 62
- vesting 50
- make it 90
- ornate 138
- adviser 256
- charter school 50
- park 187
- hysteria 120
- codependence 13
- dynasty 231
- liquid 533
- bania 73
- Together 80
- real 515
- Kenya 72
- Petroleum 44
- blood poisoning 87
- echo 572
- cygnet 94
- cashew 138
- intuition 187
- caller ID 83
- castilian 84
- tutelage 56
- bone china 101
- conducted 46
- mohammed 40
- like 311
- pétanque 33
- Conventional 88
- scrunch 58
- FLATTER 65
- grasping 207
- convulsionist 39
- Occupant 173
- Dysfunctional 41
- W 126
- oxidize 89
- Thick 167
- script 251
- techno 73
- interrogatory 53
- exiled 51
- distinguished 222
- votable 39
- generosity 136
- underwriter 65
- invigorated 46
- liney 29
- gluttonous 102
- blinkered 72
- despise 483
- adjectively 48
- with ease 3
- fatuous 120
- grimace 181
- tempter 133
- inopportune 76
- devoiced 27
- talking point 43
- height 561
- command performance 80
- pointy 77
- JD 68
- bully pulpit 174
- bagpipe 132
- mustiest 35
- intensifying 21
- cabin cruiser 73
- avail 182
- Liar 95
- restaurateur 71
- penalty 331
- repercussion 172
- Recycle 100
- shadowed 54
- baldie 63
- partake 136
- oldest 37
- Pennsylvania 16
- slat 89
- Would rather 57
- bring in 98
- cross-eyed 69
- opposition 211
- translator 98
- whomever 67
- starken 41
- hare 436
- cause 680
- Inevitably 75
- sun-baked 36
- dreamt 61
- daytime 139
- Xmas 23
- accord 536
- Filled 83
- lippy 90
- Insulated 133
- interconnectivity 31
- mock turtle soup 5
- almshouse 128
- pill 508
- kahuna 48
- Tong 18
- encode 129
- shabbily 80
- listicle 67
- thrones 28
- Apocalypse 188
- desks 29
- defeatist 86
- tabbing 36
- geospatial 35
- subaltern 40
- canniness 54
- gutsiness 54
- maidan 41
- subletting 34
- bulgar 56
- breaker 111
- these 127
- bioprospect 51
- swinger 66
- Whisper 48
- curling iron 61
- gormand 33
- foe 148
- tack 230
- Economic 125
- preoccupy 85
- peck 95
- mendicant 61
- maya 51
- contemporary 530
- outdrink 48
- cretinize 71
- with 152
- rethink 285
- moira 61
- well 437
- floor plan 43
- slide 647
- gold standard 2
- ungainly 71
- fink 122
- gunmetal 103
- modern 177
- isobar 42
- levies 33
- associationism 39
- vicelike 76
- premigration 40
- conspicuous consumption 126
- refurbishment 37
- houseful 64
- Unidentified 14
- burn off 95
- redevelop 77
- underspent 31
- retrospection 55
- Afrikaner 79
- paint 561
- starlit 51
- grub 138
- campout 69
- codependent 104
- slack 286
- salutatorian 47
- (the right of) first refusal 85
- leg 244
- the big screen 68
- Rash 39
- crenelated 50
- herbiest 35
- hotel 147
- laggy 45
- zugzwang 44
- Zealous 9
- druggist 126
agnostic
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural agnostics
plural agnostics
Learner's definition of AGNOSTIC
[count]
1
: a person who does not have a definite belief about whether God exists or not不可知论者 — compare atheist
2
: a person who does not believe or is unsure of something（对某事）持不相信或不确定态度的人
- She considered herself an agnostic on the truth of the theory. [=she was not sure if the theory was true or not]她认为自己对这个理论的真实性没有把握。
- a political agnostic [=a person who lacks strong political beliefs]缺少坚定政治信仰的人
ag·nos·tic ag-ˈnä-stik 
əg-
1
: a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
Did you know?
How Agnostic Differs From Atheist
Many people are interested in distinguishing between the words agnostic and atheist. The difference is quite simple: atheist refers to someone who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods, and agnostic refers to someone who doesn’t know whether there is a god, or even if such a thing is knowable. This distinction can be troublesome to remember, but examining the origins of the two words can help.
Agnostic first appeared in 1869, (possibly coined by the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley), and was formed from the Greek agnōstos (meaning "unknown, unknowable"). Atheist came to English from the French athéisme. Although both words share a prefix (which is probably the source of much of the confusion) the main body of each word is quite different. Agnostic shares part of its history with words such as prognosticate and prognosis, words which have something to do with knowledge or knowing something. Atheist shares roots with words such as theology and theism, which generally have something to do with God.
Example Sentences
Noun Even polytheists … were in fact tolerated, as Islamic rule spread to most of India. Only the total unbeliever—the agnostic or atheist—was beyond the pale of tolerance … 
Bernard Lewis, Islam in History, 1993 Supporters of education vouchers … will love what Norman Macrae has to say on the subject. Teachers' unions and other opponents of vouchers … will deplore it. Voucher agnostics (and I include myself) might find that the proposal not only answers most doubts but also makes sense on issues they've never much thought about. William Raspberry, Springfield (Massachusetts) Union, 14 Aug. 1987 I call myself an agnostic. I do not really have any faith, any coherent religious faith, and yet the one thing in my life that I feel passionate and evangelical about is poetry. Maxine Kumin, "An Interview at Interlochen," 1977, in To Make a Prairie, 1979 Adjective Cladistics classifies organisms in nested hierarchies based exclusively on their order of branching. (I should say that I am quite agnostic about this theory, so I do not write as a shill.) Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, March 1995 The composition comes alive in stanzas V and VI. This is the dark night. I hoped my readers would remember John of the Cross's poem. My night is not gracious, but secular, puritan, and agnostic. An existentialist night. Robert Lowell, Collected Prose, 1987 … I thought that by the time I was past thirty-five—at the very least agnostic and surely swept by the bleak winds of existentialism—I had abandoned the Presbyterian precepts of my childhood. William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 See More
Bernard Lewis, Islam in History, 1993 Supporters of education vouchers … will love what Norman Macrae has to say on the subject. Teachers' unions and other opponents of vouchers … will deplore it. Voucher agnostics (and I include myself) might find that the proposal not only answers most doubts but also makes sense on issues they've never much thought about. William Raspberry, Springfield (Massachusetts) Union, 14 Aug. 1987 I call myself an agnostic. I do not really have any faith, any coherent religious faith, and yet the one thing in my life that I feel passionate and evangelical about is poetry. Maxine Kumin, "An Interview at Interlochen," 1977, in To Make a Prairie, 1979 Adjective Cladistics classifies organisms in nested hierarchies based exclusively on their order of branching. (I should say that I am quite agnostic about this theory, so I do not write as a shill.) Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, March 1995 The composition comes alive in stanzas V and VI. This is the dark night. I hoped my readers would remember John of the Cross's poem. My night is not gracious, but secular, puritan, and agnostic. An existentialist night. Robert Lowell, Collected Prose, 1987 … I thought that by the time I was past thirty-five—at the very least agnostic and surely swept by the bleak winds of existentialism—I had abandoned the Presbyterian precepts of my childhood. William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 See More Recent Examples on the Web Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022 The term influencer was platform agnostic and described the growing and amorphous power that came with online fame. Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022 Ensure software is bot-agnostic and can work seamlessly. Sudha Chandrasekharan, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 Kwami Abdul-Bey, an agnostic, enrolled his 6-year-old son, Lorne, in the program, and attended Monday's opening ceremony. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022 Thåström is written as a harsh existentialist, political and speaks succinctly, while Cave is the opposite, a struggling Dionysian agnostic, and a romantic dreamer who swims in words. Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022 CISOs must now devise strategies to ensure that data is protected (often at the record level) in a manner agnostic to where it is stored or processed. Ameesh Divatia, Forbes, 2 June 2022 Neither of us -- Arin, a Jewish atheist, nor I, a Catholic agnostic -- ever felt comfortable with the masses, the crossings, the acts of adoration, all the trappings of institutional religion. Dave Lucas, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022 Still, despite that designation, the space is content-agnostic: Kirk hopes to bring in audiovisual experiences focussed on many different industries and subjects—science, music, history, sports. Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2022 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2022 That's why many businesses move into a multicloud or hybrid cloud model, which adopts a platform-agnostic approach to workload optimization. Steve Daly, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022 Lauv’s genre-agnostic approach to music means that All 4 Nothing spans a lot of different styles while still being grounded in his larger-than-life feelings. Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022 Under its business model, Replay separates its platform technologies, which are meant to be agnostic, from specific drug development efforts. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022 Technology will only enable us to respond to and manage disruptors if the hardware is expandable, the software easily scalable and all components are agnostic. Suresh Menon, Forbes, 17 June 2022 In our era of genre-agnostic listeners clicking around streaming platforms, perhaps that’s unsurprising. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2022 Pruitt’s race-agnostic approach to clientele, posing Black and white sitters in the same wicker peacock chair and under the same lights, was fairly unheard of for the time, says Hudson. Janine Latus, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022 The film tells the true story of a man who undergoes a radical transformation from an agnostic boxer to a priest after a life-altering motorcycle accident. Maggie Horton, Country Living, 24 June 2022 See More
Noun
Fair Square, which employs about 25 people, has tailored its service to be commission agnostic, according to Petkevich. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022 The term influencer was platform agnostic and described the growing and amorphous power that came with online fame. Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022 Ensure software is bot-agnostic and can work seamlessly. Sudha Chandrasekharan, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 Kwami Abdul-Bey, an agnostic, enrolled his 6-year-old son, Lorne, in the program, and attended Monday's opening ceremony. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022 Thåström is written as a harsh existentialist, political and speaks succinctly, while Cave is the opposite, a struggling Dionysian agnostic, and a romantic dreamer who swims in words. Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022 CISOs must now devise strategies to ensure that data is protected (often at the record level) in a manner agnostic to where it is stored or processed. Ameesh Divatia, Forbes, 2 June 2022 Neither of us -- Arin, a Jewish atheist, nor I, a Catholic agnostic -- ever felt comfortable with the masses, the crossings, the acts of adoration, all the trappings of institutional religion. Dave Lucas, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022 Still, despite that designation, the space is content-agnostic: Kirk hopes to bring in audiovisual experiences focussed on many different industries and subjects—science, music, history, sports. Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2022 Adjective
What's more, the feature appears to be streamer-agnostic, as multiple Stadia-like streaming services have started appearing in search results. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2022 That's why many businesses move into a multicloud or hybrid cloud model, which adopts a platform-agnostic approach to workload optimization. Steve Daly, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022 Lauv’s genre-agnostic approach to music means that All 4 Nothing spans a lot of different styles while still being grounded in his larger-than-life feelings. Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022 Under its business model, Replay separates its platform technologies, which are meant to be agnostic, from specific drug development efforts. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022 Technology will only enable us to respond to and manage disruptors if the hardware is expandable, the software easily scalable and all components are agnostic. Suresh Menon, Forbes, 17 June 2022 In our era of genre-agnostic listeners clicking around streaming platforms, perhaps that’s unsurprising. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2022 Pruitt’s race-agnostic approach to clientele, posing Black and white sitters in the same wicker peacock chair and under the same lights, was fairly unheard of for the time, says Hudson. Janine Latus, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022 The film tells the true story of a man who undergoes a radical transformation from an agnostic boxer to a priest after a life-altering motorcycle accident. Maggie Horton, Country Living, 24 June 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Greek ágnōstos "unknown, unknowable" (from a- a- entry 2 + gnōstós "known," variant of gnōtós, verbal adjective of gignṓskein "to know entry 1") + -ic entry 2 (after gnostic)
Adjective
derivative of agnostic entry 1
First Known Use
Noun
1861, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
1870, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of agnostic was in 1861 👨🏻🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文