Synonyms of agnostic

agnostic 1 of 2

adjective

as in secular

not having or showing conviction about the existence of God

As she grew older, she began to question the religious teachings of her youth and became more agnostic.

Related Words

• secular
• atheistic
• skeptical
• irreligious
• godless
• questioning
• doubting
• heretical
• nonreligious
• unbelieving
• religionless
• pagan
• disbelieving
• unchurched
• churchless
• miscreant
• ungodly
• unholy
• unconsecrated
• irreverent
• blasphemous
• impious
• sacrilegious
• unhallowed
• heathen
• paganish
• profane

Dissimilar Words

• religious
• devout
• holy
• worshipful
• prayerful
• godly
• saintly
• sainted
• worshipping
• sacred
• sacrosanct
• God-fearing
• consecrated
• pious
• sanctified
• reverent
• hallowed

agnostic

2 of 2

noun

as in skeptic

a person who does not have a definite belief about whether God exists or not

He was an agnostic despite his religious upbringing.

Related Words

• skeptic
• pagan
• questioner
• unbeliever
• disbeliever
• doubter
• cynic
• doubting Thomas
• heathen
• misanthrope
• ridiculer
• pessimist
• paganish
• scoffer
• derider

Dissimilar Words

• believer
• pigeon
• sucker
• gull
• dupe
• chump

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of agnostic

Adjective

The future enterprise may need to be more compute-agnostic, meaning the ability to deploy workloads on resources that enables the best combination of performance, cost, resilience, throughput, security and business outcome. — Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

In practice, this game showed that the Spurs will be pretty point guard agnostic with that grouping. — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Noun

The exemplar of how controversy can turn sports agnostics into a captive audience is the ladies’ singles figure skating finals at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 Feb. 2026

As agnostics, we are also intrigued by the return of certain humanitarian values to Catholicism under Pope Francis — the idea of the Church as a place for the outcast. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025