agree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-grē'
ipa: /əˈɡɹiː/
ipa: /əˈɡɹi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: agrees
form: agreeing
form: agreed
form: agreed
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”).
Senses: examples: text: All parties agree in the expediency of the law.
text: I mostly agree with what you said, but I consider your last point to be unfair.
text: I couldn’t agree more with what you say, but my brother still doesn't quite agree.
text: You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree.
ref: 1594, Thomas Lodge, The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla, page 46:
text: Theresa May’s cabinet repeatedly fails to agree with itself on what customs arrangement it wants with the EU after Brexit
ref: 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):
text: If music and sweet poetry agree.
ref: 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:
text: For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 14:56:
text: The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
ref: 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:
synonyms: concur
glosses: To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
examples: text: It was agreed to meet here at midday.
text: The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
glosses: To give assent; to accede.
raw_tags: followed by "to"
examples: text: ... 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, ...
ref: 1666, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 88:
text: The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.
ref: 2005, Paddy McNutt, Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective, page 59:
text: Bishops agree sex abuse rules
ref: 2011 April 3, John Burke, The Sunday Business Post:
glosses: To yield assent to; to approve.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 5:25:
text: But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 20:13:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The picture does not agree with the original.
text: The two scales agree exactly.
glosses: To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
examples: text: The same food does not agree with every constitution.
qualifier: now always with with
glosses: To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
examples: text: In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: govern
glosses: To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
topics: law
glosses: To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
Synonyms: sense: harmonize in opinion
word: concur
word: harmonize
sense: yield assent
word: accede
word: come around
word: give way
word: assent
sense: yield assent to
word: approve
sense: yield assent to
word: set
sense: yield assent to
word: strike
sense: come to terms or to a common resolve
word: bargain
word: deal
word: engage
sense: be conformable
word: coincide
sense: be conformable
word: correspond
sense: be conformable
word: match
sense: be conformable
word: resemble
sense: do well
word: fit
sense: do well
word: suit
sense: be consistent
word: comport
word: agree
word: accord
word: meet
word: coexist
word: cohere
word: comprobate
word: consent
word: tally
Derived terms: agreeability
agreeable
agreeance
agreement
agreer
agree to disagree
agree with
disagree
misagree
pre-agree
reagree
Related terms: word: gree
word: agreement
word: agreeable
word: assent