agree
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: agrees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: agreeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: agreed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: agreed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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, but my brother still doesn't quite agree.
You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree.
Theresa May’s cabinet repeatedly fails to agree with itself on what customs arrangement it wants with the EU after Brexit
If music and sweet poetry agree.
For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
gloss: To give assent; to accede.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It was agreed to meet here at midday.
The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
gloss: To yield assent to; to approve.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
transitive
examples: We agreed a bargain yesterday.
... 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, ...
The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.
Bishops agree sex abuse rules
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
gloss: To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The picture does not agree with the original.
The two scales agree exactly.
gloss: To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The same food does not agree with every constitution.
gloss: To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
gloss: To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: harmonize
come around
give way
assent
deal
engage
agree
accord
meet
coexist
cohere
comprobate
consent
tally
accede
Antonyms: disagree
clash
jar
Related words: gree
agreement
agreeable
assent
Derived words: agreeability
agreeable
agreeance
agreement
agreer
agree to disagree
agree with
disagree
misagree
pre-agree
reagree
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