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Definition: Gnostic |
GnosticAdjective1. Of or relating to Gnosticism; "Gnostic writings". 2. Possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things. Noun1. An advocate of gnosticism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Gnostic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
| Antonym: agnostic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heterodoxy | Brahmin, Brahman; Parsee, Sufi, Buddhist; Magi, Gymnosophist, fire worshiper, Sabian, Gnostic, Rosicrucian; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gnostic |
| English words defined with "Gnostic": Heracleonite ♦ Marcionite, Marcosian ♦ Ophite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Gnostic": Bardesanists ♦ Floriani ♦ Gnostics ♦ Marcionites ♦ Philetus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gnostic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (gnostic). |
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| "Gnostic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Gnostic" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.45% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Gnostic": anti-gnostic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Gnostic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gnostik. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гностичен, гностик. (various references) | |
Chinese | 相信神秘直觉说. (various references) | |
Czech | gnostický. (various references) | |
German | gnostisch. (various references) | |
Greek | γνωστικόσ (level headed, sensible), γνωστικιστήσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | יודע (knowing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gnosztikus. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | osticgnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gnóstico. (various references) | |
Romanian | gnostic. (various references) | |
Russian | гностический, гностик. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gnostik, gnostički. (various references) | |
Swedish | gnostisk, gnostiker. (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับองค์ความรู้. (various references) | |
Turkish | ruhani bilgiye ait. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngộ đạo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Gnostic": gnosticism, gnosticisms, gnostics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Gnostic": agnostic, diagnostic, immunodiagnostic, pharmacognostic, prognostic, serodiagnostic, xenodiagnostic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Gnostic": agnosticism, agnosticisms, agnostics, diagnostical, diagnostically, diagnostician, diagnosticians, diagnostics, pharmacognostical, prognosticate, prognosticated, prognosticates, prognosticating, prognostication, prognostications, prognosticative, prognosticator, prognosticators, prognostics. (additional references) | |
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"Gnostic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ghostie, gnostikoi, Gostick, Nostoc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: costing. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: coigns, cosign, coting, incogs, ingots, stingo, tigons, tocsin, tonics. | |
-2 letters: cions, coign, coins, icons, incog, ingot, ontic, scion, sonic, sting, stoic, tigon, tings, tongs, tonic. | |
-3 letters: cigs, cion, cist, cogs, coin, coni, cons, cost, cots, gins, gist, gits, icon, into, ions, nits, nogs, otic, scot, sign, sing, snit, snog, snot, song, tics, ting. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agnostic, coasting, coatings, escoting, gnostics, scooting, scouting, stocking. | |
+2 letters: accosting, agnostics, agonistic, closeting, clothings, coastings, cognovits, cohosting, contusing, corseting, cosseting, costuming, escorting, nostalgic, scotching, scoutings, sectoring, socketing, stockings, stuccoing. | |
+3 letters: clingstone, coexisting, cognations, cognitions, combusting, composting, congesting, congestion, congestive, consenting, consisting, consorting, constringe, construing, consulting, contagions, contagious, contesting, contiguous, costarring, creosoting, cytogenies, diagnostic, estrogenic, gnosticism, incognitas, incognitos, jingoistic, nightscope, nostalgics, oncologist, organicist, osculating, osteogenic, outcursing, outscoring, prognostic, prosecting, restocking, sectioning, soliciting, sonicating, splotching, stockading, stockinged, stomaching, suctioning. | |
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