agnostic.

1. Holding that the existence of God is unknown or unknowable.

2. Uncommitted to a particular position because available evidence does not settle it.

3. Designed not to depend on a particular platform, device, or implementation.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• agnostic position
• agnostic thinker

On the page

She described her position as agnostic rather than atheistic.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.