# agree
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer (“to accept or receive kindly”), from a gré (“favorably”), from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ə-grē', IPA: /əˈɡɹiː/
* (General American) IPA: /əˈɡɹi/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: a‧gree
* Rhymes: -iː

### Verb

agree (third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreeing, simple past and past participle agreed)
* (intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
    Synonym: concur
    All parties agree in the expediency of the law.
    I mostly agree with what you said, but I consider your last point to be unfair.
    I couldn’t agree more with what you say.
** 1594, Thomas Lodge, The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla, page 46:You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree.
** 2018, Jon Stone, “Brexit: No significant progress made on any issue in negotiations since March, says EU (The Independent)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:Theresa May’s cabinet repeatedly fails to agree with itself on what customs arrangement it wants with the EU after Brexit
** 1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC:If music and sweet poetry agree.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 14:56:For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
** 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
* (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede
    to agree to an offer or an opinion
    The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
* (transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
** 1666, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 88:... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...
** 2005, Paddy McNutt, Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective, page 59:The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.
** 2011 April 3, John Burke, The Sunday Business Post:Bishops agree sex abuse rules
* (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 5:25:Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 20:13:But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
* (intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
    The picture does not agree with the original.
    The two scales agree exactly.
* (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
    The same food does not agree with every constitution.
* (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
    Coordinate term: govern
    In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
* (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

#### Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
* This is a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
* The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to or upon.
* US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".

#### Synonyms

* (harmonize in opinion): concur, harmonize; See also Thesaurus:agree
* (yield assent): accede, come around, give way; See also Thesaurus:accede or Thesaurus:assent
* (yield assent to): approve, set
* (come to terms or to a common resolve): bargain, deal, engage; See also Thesaurus:bargain
* (be conformable): coincide, correspond, match, resemble
* (do well): fit, suit
* (grammar):
* (law):

#### Antonyms

* disagree

#### Derived terms

* agreeability
* agreeable
* agreeance
* agreement
* agreer
* agree to disagree
* agree with
* disagree
* misagree
* pre-agree
* reagree

#### Related terms

* gree

#### Translations

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#### Further reading

* “agree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “agree”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Eager, aeger, eager, eagre, geare, æger

## Galo
### Noun

agree
* rainbow

## Middle English
### Verb

agree
* Alternative form of agreen

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer.

### Verb

agree (third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreein, simple past agreed, past participle agreed)
* to consent to
* (occasionally) to suffer no injury from (sth)

### References

* “agree, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English agre, from Old French a gre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈɡriː/

### Adverb

agree
* natively
** 1978, A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy:They are not agree to the place.They are not natives of the place.

### References

* Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎, volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 153