agnostic
A Word with Greek Root, Prefix or Suffix
gno
a-
A Word with Greek Root, Prefix or Suffix
agnostic
not being able to know whether God exists or not; a person who believes that human mind can not know whether God exists or not
不可知论者; 不可知论的, 不可知论者的
Dissection of agnostic
agnostic = a- (not) + gnos (know) + -tic (suffix for noun. Note: -tic is a variant of -ic)
agnostic = not able to know the existence of god
agnostic = extended further to mean a person who believes that human mind can not know whether God exists or not
Now Repeat my Dissection
agnostic = not able to know the existence of god
agnostic = extended further to mean a person who believes that human mind can not know whether God exists or not
Important roots for this word:
gnos
gno
a-
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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