Meaning & use
agnostic
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holding the view that the existence of God, or some other claim, cannot be known for certain
See it in a sentence
She describes herself as agnostic, saying she isn't sure whether a god exists.
The company built a payment system that is agnostic to the type of device being used.
A note on using this word
Originally about religious belief, 'agnostic' is now widely used in tech and business to mean 'not tied to one particular option' (e.g. 'platform-agnostic').
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dogmatic
Another way to use it
2. noun
a person who believes it is impossible to know whether God exists
He has been an agnostic since his college philosophy class.
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